Title: Ordinary families, special children
First published: 1989
Description: This revised and updated edition, like its highly acclaimed predecessor, offers a multisystems perspective on childhood disability and its effects on family life. A comprehensive and clinically useful resource, the book integrates theory and research with personal accounts from family members to examine the many variables that shape a family's responses to childhood disability and its ability to overcome the physical, cultural, and social barriers to a satisfactory lifestyle.

The book shows professionals how to apply a social and family systems-based approach to assessment and intervention with diverse families. It also describes new programs in this area, and discusses both established and emerging intervention strategies.
Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological, Children with disabilities, Family, Family relationships, Family social work, Handicapped, Mental retardation, Parents of children with disabilities, Professional-Family Relations, Psychological Adaptation, Social adjustment, Handicapped children, Parents of handicapped children, Kind, Eltern, Deficientes, Exceptional Child, Atitudes, Disabled Persons, Psicologia da crianca, Systems Theory, Behinderung, Familia (psicologia), Children with disabilities--family relationships, Children with disabilities--united states--family relationships, Parents of children with disabilities--united states, Family social work--united states, Children with disabilities--family relationships--united states, Intellectual disability, Hv888.5 .s45 1989, Ws 107.5.r5 s465o 1989, 362.4/088054
Places: United States