PSY345H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: New Born, Takers, Intellectual Disability
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A changing era in lives of people with disabilities: Care takers are making parents more included in the partnership as families are the primary caregivers, suport for the child with disabilities. Also it helps build better relationship with the family. Learning that child is disabled is heart wrenching. Parents may react with disappointment, anger, guilt etc. Many parents and families have developed coping skills, enhancing their well being and allowing them to take better care of the disabled child. Many families become resilient and adapt well to having a disabled child. Humour plays a great role in ridding the negative emotion, stress and allows the family to connect with one another. Disabled children pose unique and diverse challenges that can either put the family in crisis (major conflicts among members) or bring the family members closer. This happens due to the added and unexpected emotional, physical and financial demands.
