• 아동학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.61-75
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• 2007

This study defined awareness of professionalism and job stress in 353 child-care teachers of children with special needs and analyzed the relative contribution of professional awareness to job stress. Teachers showed high awareness of 'ethics' and 'enthusiasm enhancing professionalism', and this awareness correlated highly with professionalism in the 'specialized knowledge and skills' sub-factors. Teachers showed high levels of stress in the 'general duty' and the 'guidance of children with special needs' categories, and this correlated highly with stress caused by 'child-care center management.' The results of canonical correlation analysis indicated that of professionalism sub-factors only the awareness of 'social services' contributed positively to job stress.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.141-159
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• 2006

It is generally blown that foster children often have special needs such as disability and psycho-behavioral problems. It is also known that foster parents will provide better care with those children when they are coping well with foster children with special needs. The purpose of the study was to explore the perceptions foster parents have and what factors affect their decisions to care for children with special needs. Literature review reveals that successful foster parent care is related to the foster parents' motivation, role perception, and social support systems. foster parents' motivation is related to 'altruism toward foster child', 'the egocentrism of the foster parent', 'previous experience with adoption' and 'the past experiences of the foster parent'. Role perceptions of the foster parent consist of 'supporting the internal system of the foster child' and 'supporting the external system of the foster child'. The social support system is characterized as the limited notions of a family oriented concept. In addition, a foster parent's decision to look after special-needs children is related to their motivation while the decision to foster disabled children is related to the levels of available social support systems as well as motivation. The results of the study implies that the motivation level and that of social support system are closely related to different aspects of the special-needs foster child; this factor should also be considered when recruiting foster parents or placing special needs children.

• 부모자녀건강학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2010

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the recognition on center-based child care health programs for parents with ill children. Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study with convenient sampling method was used and 136 parents were recruited from two university hospital outpatient departments and hospitalized wards, and they completed a structured questionnaire. Results: Majority (57.4%) of parents experienced a leaving work early or being absent from their work due to children's illness. Most dissatisfying factors in child care centers were child health management. Most of parents agreed on the need for a center-based child care health program, and wanted a better management of health care by health professionals in child care centers. Conclusion: These results support that there is a great demand for center-based child care health programs. These special programs are needed for reducing a child rearing burden for working mothers and overcoming the low birthrate in Korea. Health-care programs in child-care settings can help parents meet the health needs of their children while reducing absenteeism from work, thereby contributing to job stability. These results suggest discussions of the related policy with child care centers responsible and national health and educational authorities.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.257-270
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• 2019

This study the presents survey results of a families living with children with disabilities in northern Seoul (Nowon-gu and Dobong-gu) that provides various educational services. This study investigates the current usage and needs of community resources for children with disabilities by the families in the inclusive and segregated care as well as education centers to provide information for the effective implementation of the current system. A total of 109 surveys were distributed and 62 (57%) were returned. 44 families in the 14 inclusive care and education centers as well as 18 families in the 2 segregated care and education centers participated in this study. They were asked to report on access to community resources that include compulsory education, family support, medical treatment, counseling services, commuting support, ways to gain necessary information, current use, and further needs for community resources for their children. Research results indicated that families in two different types of child care centers needed differentiated community services. Parents who use a segregated child care center demanded physical accessibility and increased numbers of highly qualified teachers; however, parents who use the inclusive child care center require the unified information system for the community resources. Survey findings are discussed related to differences between the two types of child care centers. Implications for sharing comprehensive information through child care teachers and directors of child care centers and future research are also discussed.

• 아동학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.209-227
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• 2007

A structured questionnaire was distributed to families using some of the ten specialized caring facilities throughout Gyeongbuk Province. Of the 294 responses, 242 were usable. Results showed that (1) facilities were most used by families of children with autism (31.3%) and by families with severely handicapped children (96.3%). (2) Suggestions for improving facilities, included physical-, performance-, and language-therapies (60%) and teachers with expertise in special education (47.8%).(3) More than half of the respondents were satisfied with the degree of care. (4) Satisfaction with degree of caring services varied with academic background of mothers, mothers' job status, degree of child's disability, length of usage, average expenditure for hospital visits, and burden to the family.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.42-51
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• 1997

Although a family-centered approach to health care for developmentally disabled children has been advocated, existing systems of care have not adequately addressed the support needs of the family system and the essential role that parents play in the daily care of these children. The overall purpose of this research is to examine family system adaptation to the care of a developmetally disabled child using the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustement, and Adaptation Framework. Relationships among family system demands (stressors, strains, transitions, child's illness factors) and family system strengths and capabilities(resource of social support) were examined to determine their separate and combined contribution to explanining the variability in family system outcomes (family system coping ). The subject for this study was 46 families who have a child with developmental disabilities(mental retardation and / or autism) from three special educational programs in Seoul, Korea. Results from correlation and hierachial regression analysis revealed that perceived social support operated as a resiliency factor between family stress and coping. Child and family characteristics appeared to be important predictors of perceived social support and coping. In summary, there is evidence that the resource of social support as a family strength and capability was found to improve the family coping. These findings also must be viewed within the context that sample of families of children with disabilities was relatively small and eligible families from support group of special educational program.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.75-89
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to understand the physical accessibility of the child care centers for disabled children in Japan. Fifteen centers located in Tokyo, Japan were surveyed through sketching, measuring, taking pictures, and observation. To understand the user's needs. the directors of the centers were interviewed. As a result,the followings suggestions were proposed. First, when the entrance of the center is close to the road, careful design for the entrance area is required to secure the safety of children using wheelchairs. If possible, a fence or door between the corridor and entrance is necessary. Second, most aspects of accessibility are pretty well designed. But a canopy over the entrance area is required to escape the rain. Third, a wider corridor space is desirable for storing and driving wheelchairs and for special equipment for the disabled. Forth, because the emergency exits were installed but not used, the new and safer emergency exits should be installed. These results will be a good case reference for developing Korean design guidelines for the children with disabilities.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.231-244
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• 1998

The purpose of this study was to find educational needs of toddler's mother in child-caring experience. The subject of the study was toddler's mother who visited one health care center in J city for immunization and had a child or children between twelve and thirty six months old. The subjects were 37 mothers. The instrument used for this study was a semi -structured questionnaire developed by researcher and based on Objective Content Test of Garretson(1967). The collected data were analized by two researchers using the method of Content Analysis. The results of this study are summarized as follows : 1) Of the large categories, the need of the highest frequency was 'prevention and management of disease and injury', that of the lowest 'growth and development'. 2) In 'physical care' category, 'care of sleeping' was the highest. In 'nutrition and eating-habitual management' category, 'weaning management' was the highest. In 'prevention and management of disease and injury' category, 'disease management' was the highest. In 'discipline and teaching' category, 'discipline' was the highest. 3) In comparison with preceding references, the educational needs of child-caring which had not been shown in preceding references but had been shown in this study were hair-caring, kind of weaning diet, method of cure and nursing, man agement of deformity, and so on. In conclusion, educational needs of toddler's mother in child-caring experience were matter-of-fact and inclusive. Needs in management of special situation such as disease were higher than usual parenting procedure or method. In addition, there were higher needs in questions happened through child-caring experience or confirmation of procedures practicing now. Then, it is suggested that parent education program should be developed on the basis of educational needs found in this study to be more effective in preparing mother's child-caring.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.335-355
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• 2013

본 연구는 아동권리 존중 측면에서 어린이집에서의 휴식 및 낮잠에 대한 유아들의 인식과 요구는 무엇인지 알아보는 것이 목적이다. 연구대상은 서울시 국공립 B어린이집 원아 만4세 20명, 만5세 20명으로 총40명이다. 연구방법은 면담조사와 프로젝트활동 중에서 참여관찰로 이루어졌으며 이 과정에서 수집한 관찰기록, 녹음자료, 동영상자료의 전사본을 내용분석 하였다. 연구결과로 첫째, 유아가 인식하는 휴식의 의미는 가족과 함께 하는 시간, 재미있는 놀이하는 시간, 힘들고 화날 때 필요한 시간, 맛있는 음식을 먹는 시간으로 나타났으며 둘째, 어린이집에서의 낮잠에 대해 유아들은 자기 싫은데도 자야하는 시간, 조용한 음악 듣는 시간, 자고나면 기분이 좋아지는 시간으로 인식하였으며 셋째, 어린이집에서의 휴식 및 낮잠에 대해 유아들은 친구들이 귀가 후 종일반에 모였을 때 쉬고 싶어 하였으며, 교실 외 별도의 공간을 필요로 하고, 휴식할 때 친숙한 성인의 보호를 요구했다. 이 결과를 통해 유아들의 휴식 및 낮잠을 즐길 수 있는 권리를 존중하는 측면에서 향후 연구방향을 제안하였다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.305-317
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• 2021

본 연구는 아동양육시설 보육사가 경험한 통합보육을 통해 통합보육의 다면성과 성공적 통합보육 수행 방향을 제시하고자 했다. 아동양육시설에서 통합보육을 경험한 10명의 보육사를 연구 참여자로 선정하여 질적 사례연구방법에 따라 전사 자료를 분석했다. 보육사들은 통합보육 수행에 거부감을 나타내고 있었으며, 통합보육 적응과정에서 장애아동과 비장애아동 모두에게 충분한 돌봄을 제공할 수 없어 죄책감을 느끼고 있었다. 그들은 아동에게 필요한 지원을 제때에 받을 수 있도록 행정기관과의 즉각적 소통의 창구 마련, 장애아동 케어와 관련한 보육사 교육지원 및 특수교사 파견 등을 원하고 있으며, 3교대 정책에 대해서는 모두 반대의견으로 나타났다. 또한 아동양육시설에서의 통합보육 다면성에 따른 지원방안으로서 보육사의 처우와 급여 문제, 시설보호아동들의 교육 기회와 양육환경 문제에 대한 사회 전반의 관심을 환기 하는데 있어 향후 연구 방향을 추가로 모색할 수 있을 것으로 기대해본다.