Stress and coping in families of children with Smith‐Magenis syndrome

To describe stress and coping in families of children with Smith‐Magenis syndrome, the present authors interviewed and received questionnaires from families of 36 children with this disorder. For measures of total stress, and of parent and family problems, the best predictors were the family's number of friends and the child's degree of impairment on the Vineland socialization domain; the single best predictor of parental pessimism was the...