Overview
- Highlights children with special care needs, a rapidly growing and vulnerable population
- Explains, evaluates and collects different research results in an understandable manner in a single volume
- Is an accessible research literature study for those who encounter children with disabilities in their daily work
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Social Work (BRIEFSSOWO)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Children with special care needs
- Children with developmental disabilities
- Children's rights
- International Classification of Functioning, Disability & Health
- Schooling for children with disabilities
- Health in children with disabilities
- Parents of children with disabilities
- Child abuse
- Child-centered approach
- Children with intellectual disabilities
- Autism
- Wellbeing of children with disabilities
- Educational opportunities of children with disabilities
- COVID-19 pandemic
About this book
Research on children with disabilities is considerable but often can be difficult to access on many levels, which means it does not always benefit those who need this knowledge. This compact book addresses this by presenting the international research in the field in an understandable way for people who work with children with disabilities and their families. The authors provide a broad picture of the background, reality of life, opportunities for professional help and support, as well as outlook of these children and families. Among the topics covered:
- The Health and Well-being of Children with Disabilities
- The Health and Well-being of Relatives
- Occupation
- On the Road to Adulthood
Children with Special Needs: An Overview of Knowledge on Disability is pertinent reading for students in all areas of health care (including nursing and psychology), social work, sociology, and education aimed at children and young people. The text also would be of interest to those who practice in these areas and/or encounter children with disabilities in their daily work.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ulrika Hallberg, DrPH is an associate professor of public health at Malmö University, Faculty of Odontology, Department of Pediatric Dentistry. Ulrika is in essence a sociologist and received her doctorate in public health in 2003. She also works as a teaching material writer and has written several textbooks mainly about disabilities and mental illness. During the 1990s Ulrika trained as a social worker but has since her degree worked exclusively with research. Since the end of the 1990s, Ulrika has devoted herself to research and supervision in various aspects of functional impairments. She has been employed at the Department of Psychology in Gothenburg, the Nordic School of Public Health, Halmstad University, and now Malmö University. Ulrika has mainly used grounded theory in her research on different aspects of living with a disability, as the affected party or as a relative, and various aspects of living with mental illness, and has published many books on different aspects of living with a disability.
Gunilla Klingberg, DDS, PhD is professor in pediatric dentistry and adviser to the Vice-Chancellor at Malmö University, Sweden. She is also senior consultant and specialist in pediatric dentistry. In research, she has studied children with special needs, their dental and orofacial health and wellbeing, and how the children’s needs are met by the dental health service. She has studied dental fear and anxiety, dental pain, socially vulnerable children, and young people with disabilities and used both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Using qualitative methods, primarily grounded theory, Gunilla, together with other researchers in a series of studies, has investigated how people with different disabilities and their relatives perceive oral health, need for dental care, and how they want to be cared for and treated by dental professionals. Special focus has been on people with rare diagnoses. To gain a broader understanding of oral health in people with disabilities, she has also investigated how healthcare and dental professionals perceive oral health and dental needs in patients with disabilities. Currently, studies using qualitative methods are carried out to study how children experience pain when they need to have teeth extracted, and how dental students and dentists understand and handle pain during dental treatment. Further studies aim to gain understanding about what children and adolescent and their parents or legal guardians experience as needs in dentistry and how they perceive oral health. Through studies of patient perspectives, the research group wants to create a basis for prioritizing both care and future research issues. Gunilla has previously published several scientific papers and textbooks.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children with Special Needs
Book Subtitle: An Overview of Knowledge on Disability
Authors: Ulrika Hallberg, Gunilla Klingberg
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Social Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28513-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28512-7Published: 01 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28513-4Published: 31 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2195-3104
Series E-ISSN: 2195-3112
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 88
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Child and School Psychology, Education, general, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Public Health, Pediatrics