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Family Resilience in Developmental Disabilities: A Parent-Centered Approach

Explore how families adapt and adjust to challenges in developmental disabilities, focusing on resilience, adaptation, and adjustment. Learn key concepts and the importance of support systems in family development.

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Family Resilience in Developmental Disabilities: A Parent-Centered Approach

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  1. SW 644: Issues in Developmental DisabilitiesParent Centered Movement Part II Lecture Presenter: Audrey Begun, M.S.W., Ph.D.

  2. Video of Betty, Doris, and Susan

  3. Family Interview • Launching and ongoing care

  4. Family Interview (2) • Sexuality, marriage, and kids

  5. Family Interview (3) • Late adulthood and the aging process

  6. Concepts • Update a “video” view of the family rather than a “snapshot” • Think about the interaction of past, present, and future events • Look at a paranormative event within the context of normative life cycle events for the family

  7. Concepts (cont.) • Distinguishing between the normative and paranormative • Maintaining an awareness of multiple forces acting on a family • Recognizing the non-linear nature of family development

  8. The Family Adaptation & Adjustment Perspective • Responses to having a family member with a disability • Resilience • Adaptation • Adjustment

  9. Resilience • Concept derives from public health epidemiology • Resilience: based on recognition of the fact that a population can be equally exposed to something harmful, yet there are many who do not succumb to its effects • Vulnerability: depends on what families bring to the situation • Level of risk: depends on environmental context and external resources

  10. Adaptation • Adaptation: refers to the process which help a family to achieve a comfortable balance & to promote the growth & development of individual members and the system as a whole

  11. Adjustment • Adjustment: refers to the relatively short-term response, usually to a specific event or stressor

  12. Support Systems • Costs & benefits • Goodness of fit • Formal & informal

  13. Eco Map

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