Dr. Dorothy Badry, PhD, RSW, is an associate professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, www.fsw.ucalgary.ca. Her doctoral dissertation, ‘Becoming a Birth Mother of a Child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome’, reviewed the lives of 8 women aged 25 to 60 who’d borne children diagnosed with the Syndrome. She talks about her life, career, and her experience of family caregiving for close family members with serious health conditions. She explains the types of services provided for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and where the responsibilities lie for providing these. She discusses c
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