Functioning characteristics of of families with intellectualy disabled child

U članku se razmatra funkcionalnost porodica sa intelektualno ometenim detetom. Cilj izvedenog istraživanja bio je ispitivanje efekata ometenosti deteta na funkcionisanje porodičnog sistema, subsistema i pojedinačnih članova porodične grupe. Strukturisanim intervjuom i baterijom skala procene ispitano je 63 roditelja intelektualno ometene dece, 4 grupe roditelja sa ometenom decom različitih kategorija i grupa roditelja sa zdravim detetom. Rezultati ukazuju na neke razlike u funkcionisanju porodica sa različito ometenom decom i, posebno, na razlike između ovih grupa porodica i porodica sa zdravim detetom.An issue of functionality of families with intellectually disabled child is discussed in the article. The goal of investigation done was to reveal the impact of children disability on functioning of family system, subsystems and individual family members. A group of 63 parents of intellectually disabled children, as well as 4 groups of parents of disabled children of different categories and a group of parents of healthy children, have been examined by a structured interview and a battery of questionnaires. The findings of the investigation pointed to some differences in functioning between families with disabled children of various categories and, particularly, to differences between these groups of families and the families with healthy children. In addition, some characteristics of families with intellectually disabled child have been found