Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Parental Self-Compassion and Psychological Distress in Families of Children with Language and Speech Disorders: A Mixed-Methods Study in the Greek Context
Originally published 2025-10-26 · Children
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/children12111456 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
What do parents say they need when progress feels slow?
This article addresses compassion toward oneself in families navigating speech and language needs.
Who was studied?
Greek parents of children with language and speech disorders, including 150 survey respondents
Age / stage: Parents of children
Read with three questions
- How did the authors investigate compassion toward oneself in families navigating speech and language needs?
- Where do the qualitative accounts support, qualify or add to the quantitative results?
- What did the Greek parents’ qualitative accounts explain that the questionnaire scores could not?
Keep the limits in view
Interview themes and distress scores capture different kinds of information and do not estimate the effect of a treatment.
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Eirini Karakasidou; Anna Papadimitriou; Lida Triantafyllou (2025). Parental Self-Compassion and Psychological Distress in Families of Children with Language and Speech Disorders: A Mixed-Methods Study in the Greek Context Children. https://doi.org/10.3390/children12111456
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