{"id":5220,"date":"2025-11-10T12:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/november-27-2025-experiences-of-croatian-parents-caregivers-the-meaning-of-caregiving-and-employment-in-the-context-of-raising-a-child-with-developmental-disabilities\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:27:09","slug":"november-27-2025-experiences-of-croatian-parents-caregivers-the-meaning-of-caregiving-and-employment-in-the-context-of-raising-a-child-with-developmental-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/de\/november-27-2025-experiences-of-croatian-parents-caregivers-the-meaning-of-caregiving-and-employment-in-the-context-of-raising-a-child-with-developmental-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"November 27 2025 &#8211; Experiences of Croatian parents-caregivers: The meaning of caregiving and employment in the context of raising a child with developmental disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p>As a part of the SCOHPICA (Swiss COhort of Health Professionals and Informal CAregivers) cohort symposium series, we are pleased to invite you to the conference presented by <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color\"><strong>ANA SLI\u0160KOVI\u0106<br><\/strong><em><em><em>Full professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Zadar<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>JELENA OMBLA<\/strong><br><\/strong><em><em><em>Associate <\/em><\/em><\/em><em><em><em>professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Zadar<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color\"><strong>November 27  2025<br>12H30 &#8211; 13H30 \u2013 VIRTUAL FORMAT<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The introductory part of the presentation will explore the complex and multidimensional experiences of parents in Croatia who serve as primary caregivers for their children. It will address the emotional, physical, and social aspects of daily caregiving, as well as the perceived long-term effects on parents\u2019 identity, family relationships, mental health, and professional life. Key strengths and challenges in coping will be highlighted, with special emphasis on the lack of formal support and the social invisibility of parent-caregivers in the Croatian context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second part will present findings from the research project &#8222;The Well-Being of Employed Parents of Children with Disabilities,&#8220; focusing on challenges these parents face in their professional lives. These are aptly reflected in the project\u2019s handbook title: &#8222;Being an Employed Parent of a Child with Disabilities: The Art of the (Im)Possible.&#8220; The presentation will offer insights into work-related issues and the struggle to balance employment and caregiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c6ce4a7bbeb08b90e00a4762122f3c98\">Language: English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ccc7a2100cd6d4a8882ff004b9c85c26\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PPT-Experiences-of-Croatian-parents-caregivers.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"4196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The PowerPoint is available here (English)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color\">You can watch the video here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Conf\u00e9rence SCOHPICA PA - Experiences of Croatian parents-caregivers\" href=\"https:\/\/video.unisante.ch\/permalink\/v126b19a608980v1w7r4\/iframe\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video.unisante.ch\/thumb\/v126b19a608980v1w7r4\/play\/\" alt=\"Conf\u00e9rence SCOHPICA PA - Experiences of Croatian parents-caregivers\"\/><\/a>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #61CBF4;\">&#8212; Full video available &#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ANA SLI\u0160KOVI\u0106<br \/>\nFull professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Zadar<\/p>\n<p>JELENA OMBLA<br \/>\nAssociate professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Zadar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-de"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6634,"href":"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scohpica.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}