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It is not uncommon for parents to want to avoid dealing with the issue of lead poisoning. There are so many things to worry about, why should they have their child screened for lead and maybe give themselves another issue to deal with? Or once they know their child has an elevated blood lead level, they may feel that because they cannot afford a full-scale abatement of their home, they are powerless to do anything about it, so why try?
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Richard S. Lazarus and Susan Folkman, Stress, Appraisal and Coping (New York: Springer, 1984).
Margaret Sauser, founder of UPAL (United Parents Against Lead) of MI, personal interview, April 1996.
Rita B. May, R.N., Mothers of Lead Exposed Children (MOLEC), Missouri, personal interview, April 1996.
Parents of lead-poisoned child, New York City, personal interviews, Sept. 1996.
Kathy Maloof, LISCW, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, personal interview, 28 Aug. 1996; Beth Holleran, LICSW, Children’s Hospital, Boston, personal interview, 21 Aug. 1996.
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Kessel, I., O’Connor, J.T. (1997). The Psychosocial Impacts of Lead Poisoning. In: Getting the Lead Out. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6116-7_10
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