937 Family System Families of children, adolescents and adults with Intellectual Developmental Disorder: Intrapersonal and interpersonal resources Malka Margalit and Michal Al-Yagon Abstract There has been a recent upsurge of interest in examining the quality of life and well-being in families of youngsters with developmental intellectual disabilities. Significant conceptual changes have emerged in this area, where deterministic clinical models that emphasized family crises have been replaced by multidimensional developmental models. Accordingly, the present chapter aims to discuss diversity in families’ responses and coping, as manifested in quality-of-life measures. Such diversity reflects dynamic interactions among risk factors and personal, family, and community resources. Thus, this chapter focuses on developmental approaches and discusses the family system for children of different ages and developmental phases, from infancy to young adulthood. This chapter will also introduce findings on possible factors that may influence quality of life, such as youngsters’ difficulties and behavior problems and parental resources such as sense of Chapter on page 443
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