Caregivers’ involvement in therapy is integral to the child’s engagement in therapy and their occupational performance outcomes (D’Arrigo et al., 2020b). Access to cost-effective, culturally relevant educational programs for caregivers of children with disability, who are oftentimes burdened with anxiety and stress due to society’s stigma, are limited in low-income and -resource settings like rural India (Angelin et al., 2021). Also compounding the problem are caregiver personal factors, environmental and contextual factors, and health care system factors (Brassart et al., 2017; Vadivelan et al., 2020). Caregiver Resilience Education (Ca.R.E.) is a group-based program comprising five modules that include approaches such as role-modeling, coaching, group discussions, collaborative goal-setting, and therapist modeling. The Ca.R.E. program culminates in the demonstration and formation of a caregiver support group to be facilitated by an occupational therapy practitioner. The mission of the Ca.R.E. program is to improve caregiver engagement and self-efficacy. Through the Ca.R.E. program, the author envisions empowered caregivers coming together to advocate for their children and themselves to combat occupational injustice in a community with the odds stacked against them.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/46600 |
| Date | 24 August 2023 |
| Creators | Muppidi, Grace Elizabeth |
| Contributors | Wagenfeld, Amy |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | Attribution 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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