Ordinary families, special children : a systems approach to childhood disability /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Seligman, Milton, 1937-
Edition:	3rd ed.
Imprint:	New York : Guilford Press, c2007.
Description:	xiv, 434 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Children with disabilities -- Family relationships -- United States. Parents of children with disabilities -- United States. Family social work -- United States. Child, Exceptional. Disabled Persons. Family. Adaptation, Psychological. Systems Theory. Children with disabilities -- Family relationships. Family social work. Parents of children with disabilities. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6277695

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Other authors / contributors:	Darling, Rosalyn Benjamin.
ISBN:	9781593853624 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1593853629 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-419) and index.

Table of 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 Addressing Family Resources, Concerns, and Priorities: Developing Family Service Plans
References
Index

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