Similarities amid the difference: Caregiving burden and adaptation outcomes in dyads of parents and their children with and without cerebral palsy

► Social support mediated the links between caregiving burden and adaptation outcomes. ► Burden was linked, via social support, to parents and children's adaptation outcomes. ► Mediational models accounted for both positive and negative adaptation outcomes. ► These mediational models were invariant in clinical and healthy samples. ► The reduction of burden may improve parent/child outcomes, via social support.