Skip to content

Ordinary Families, Special Children, Third Edition A Systems Approach to Childhood Disability

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 1606233173

ISBN-13: 9781606233177

Edition: 3rd 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Milton Seligman, Rosalyn Benjamin Darling

List price: $43.00
Shipping box This item qualifies for FREE shipping.
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $43.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Publication date: 2/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 434
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Milton Seligman, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair, Counseling Psychology Program, University of Pittsburgh.

Milton Seligman, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair, Counseling Psychology Program, University of Pittsburgh. Rosalyn Benjamin Darling, Ph.D., is the Graduate Coordinator in the Sociology Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she also teaches courses in human services, at-risk children, and the sociology of disability. Prior to assuming her present position, she served for 15 years as the Executive Director of Beginnings, an agency serving young children with disabilities; in that capacity, she also served on various state-level policy advisory committees in the area of early intervention. Dr. Darling is the author of five books and numerous articles and chapters about children…    

Conceptual Framework
Introduction and Conceptual Framework I: Social and Cultural Systems
Conceptual Framework II: Family Systems Theory and Childhood Disability
All Families Are Not Alike: Social and Cultural Diversity in Reaction to Childhood Disability
The Family Life Cycle
Becoming the Parent of a Child with a Disability: Reactions to First Information
Childhood: Continuing Adaptation
Looking to the Future: Adolescence and Adulthood
The Family System
Effects on the Family as a System
Effects on Fathers
Effects on Siblings
Effects on Grandparents
Approaches To Intervention
Professional-Family Interaction: Working toward Partnership
Perspectives and Approaches for Working with Families
Applying a Partnership Approach to Addressing Family Resources, Concerns, and Priorities: Developing Family Service Plans
References
Index