基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. Provides a multisystems perspective on childhood disability and its effects on family life.
Full Description
This popular clinical reference and text provides a multisystems perspective on childhood disability and its effects on family life. The volume examines how child, family, ecological, and sociocultural variables intertwine to shape the ways families respond to disability, and how professionals can promote coping, adaptation, and empowerment. Accessible and engaging, the book integrates theory and research with vignettes and firsthand reflections from family members.
Contents
I. Conceptual Framework
1. Introduction and Conceptual Framework I: Social and Cultural Systems
2. Conceptual Framework II: Family Systems Theory and Childhood Disability
3. All Families Are Not Alike: Social and Cultural Diversity in Reaction to Childhood Disability
II. The Family Life Cycle
4. Becoming the Parent of a Child with a Disability: Reactions to First Information
5. Childhood: Continuing Adaptation
6. Looking to the Future: Adolescence and Adulthood
III. The Family System
7. Effects on the Family as a System
8. Effects on Fathers
9. Effects on Siblings
10. Effects on Grandparents
IV. Approaches to Intervention
11. Professional-Family Interaction: Working toward Partnership
12. Perspectives and Approaches for Working with Families
13. Applying a Partnership Approach to Assessing Family Resources, Concerns, and Priorities: Developing Family Service Plans
