Abstract
Professionals working on children with special needs usually face difficulties on their activity. One of these difficulties consists on lack of communication and especially cooperation with the parents of the children. Parents usually experience deep anxiety during the time of following the educative and therapeutic treatment of their children, which for many of them becomes an endless marathon. But how do professionals view this relation? By the means of research professionals try to understand their relation with parents comparing it with what the latter report. Starting with how parents feel, what do they expect from their children, what are their expectations for the future, what's the family impact, and what do they expect from the professional. Through this overview professionals can conduct an auto-analysis of their perceptions, which can make them reflect on their attitudes, and lead to creation of bridges of cooperation among these actors. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n27p1451
Highlights
Studies show that this partnership is hard to built
They are active listeners and empathetic regarding parents. They support the idea that parents have the necessary resources to self-administer the development of themselves and their family. This type of professional uses reflection techniques and reformulation to help the parents on their efforts They emphasize on the individual; his subjectivity and his emotions
Participants in the study are professionals who work with the families of disable children (n=40). Participants expressed their opinion in the questionnaires, which were administered by the scholar
Summary
Studies show that this partnership is hard to built. In a review about the issue, Lipsky (1989) considers it a grim situation. They support the idea that parents have the necessary resources to self-administer the development of themselves and their family This type of professional uses reflection techniques and reformulation to help the parents on their efforts They emphasize on the individual; his subjectivity and his emotions. On their point of view, the objective of the intervention should be the integral development of the individual, parents and other members of the family. Practical insights of the parents become a necessary means through which professional better understand the realities, needs, and resources of the families They value the parents’ principles of reciprocity and self-determination. They integrate the practical insights of each and everyone in order to create a network of learning silently
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