930 Stigma, Sense of Competence, Stress and Background Variables among Bedouin Fathers for Adolescents with Developmental Intellectual Disabilities – A Cultural Perspective Iris Manor Binyamini and Fares Kaabiya Abstract Israel is a multicultural country in which diverse minority groups live. Each minority group has unique demographic, cultural and religious characteristics. One of these minority groups is the Bedouin population in Israel, which is defined as a sub-group within the Arab minority, and has its own cultural, historical, social and political uniqueness. In addition, having a child with a Developmental Intellectual Disability (hereinafter DID) join the family, creates a significant change in the family’s functioning, and all its components, pressures, and sometimes a change in the sense of parental competence, and in certain societies, parents of children with DID report a sense of stigma. Culturally sensitive research has received a great deal of interest in recent years. However, most of the literature on the subject of parenting children with disabilities focuses on Western cultures, and little research examines this topic in the context of minority groups and non-Western societies. Chapter on page 519
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