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Objective To explore the effects of psychology of caregivers of children with cerebral palsy on family management.Meth-ods From August,2013 to August,2014,the main caregivers of 222 children with cerebral palsy were investigated with questionnaires of de-mography,Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale(CD-RISC),Index of Well-being,Self-rating Anxiety Scale(SAS),Self-rating Depression Scale(SDS)and Family Management Measure(FaMM).Results The scores of Condition Management Ability,View of Condition Impact, Condition Management Effort, Family Life Difficulty and Parental Mutuality of FaMM were higher than the median (t>8.866, P<0.001). The scores of CD-RISC,SAS and SDS were less than the norms of Chinese(t>5.523,P<0.001).Index of Well-being was(7.63±2.96).The factors related with the dimensions of family management included the time of hospitalization of children,the expectation of rehabilitation, the levels of anxiety and psychological resilience,and the index of well-being of the parents(P<0.05).Conclusion The psychology of care-givers of children with cerebral palsy and family management are dissatisfactory,and the psychology may influence family management.