Family Care Providers
Sources of Role Strain and Its Management
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2346015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arnold Birenbaum (St. John's University), Mary Ann Re (St. John's University) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 633-658 |
| Publication date | 1983-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-513X • E-ISSN: 1552-5481 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/019251383004004007 |
| OpenAlex | W2163892415 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
Family care providers for the developmentally disabled, like all role incumbents, must function with some degree of role performance ambiguity, and reconcile different expectations from role partners. Interviews were conducted with 20 caretakers and involved 51 open-ended questions. The discussion of the day-to-day management of this role focused on three inherent difficulties and mechanisms used by incumbents to cope with them: (1) a need to negotiate the altered relationship with the community at large that results from the voluntary assumption of the care of a stigmatized person; (2) the role strains resulting from the adoption of a natural parent analogy, the selection of which is almost inevitable, given the situation of foster care applicants; and (3) the necessity to manage the incompatibility of subordinating parent discretion to agency supervision, by means of redefining relations with the agency in the person of the case manager. The directions in which this conceptualization of the role of the family care provider might take this service are discussed, particularly in the light of other human service occupational ideologies
Ambiguity · Business · Casual · Conceptualization · Discretion · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Service provider · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Family and Disability Support Research · Family Support in Illness · Psychology · Social Psychology · Marketing
Deviance and Respectability
Sociology of occupations and professions.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Stigma. Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
Deviants and Deviance
The Triangle in Child Placement
Quantitative Approaches to Parent Selection
Role phenomena and foster care for disturbed children
Social Theory and Social Structure
Foster Parenthood
The Psychiatric Attendant
The Concept of Role in Social Work
The Self-Image of the Foster Child
Foster Parenthood, a Role Analysis
On Managing a Courtesy Stigma
From Student to Nurse
Deviance and Respectability
Role Conception and Career Aspiration
The Professional Self-Concept of Music Students
Role Distance, Sociological Ambivalence, and Transitional Status Systems
The Reduction of Strain in a Marginal Social Role
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 1993 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |