PSY345H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Respite Care, Spina Bifida, Intellectual Disability
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Reactions of families are influenced by the emotional stability of the family, religious values and beliefs, cultural. In the us, 28% of children with disabilities live in poverty and experience hunger, housing instability, diminished access to health care and other things. Social/ecological system: system that provides structure for understanding human interactions, defining roles, establishing goals for behaviour, and specifying responsibilities in a social environment. traditions, cultures, beliefs, or other means. In the process, each family member functions interdependently with other family members to achieve collective and individual goals. Examines how each family member fulfills roles consistent with expectations established by discussion, Ecocultural: descriptive term that combines ecological and cultural elements to identify factors that influence family functioning, such as unemployment, the family"s primary language, the country-of-origin traditions, and so on. Social/ecological system examines the ecocultural and socioeconomic factors that negatively affect children with disabilities and their families. family.
