Families in Rehabilitation Counseling

Michael J. Millington, PhD is Course Director for the Rehabilitation Counselling Discipline and Associate of the Centre for Disability Research and Policy, and the WHO Collaborating Centre at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. Irmo Marini, PhD, DSc, CRC, CLCP, is professor in the School of Rehabilitation at the University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas. He obtained his PhD in rehabilitation from Auburn University and a master's degree in clinical psychology from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He is a 2009 recipient of the National Council on Rehabilitation Education's Distinguished Career Award in rehabilitation education, and 2010 recipient of the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association's James F. Garrett Distinguished Career Award in rehabilitation research. In 2012, Dr. Marini was bestowed an honorary Doctor of Science (honoris causa) from his alma mater Lakehead University and was the recipient of the 2013 National Council on Rehabilitation Education's Educator of the Year award. In 2015, he was the recipient of the Patricia McCollom Distinguished Career Award in life care planning research, and in 2022 the Outstanding Educator of the Year Award with the International Academy of Life Care Planners.

 


 


 



Contents
Contributors


Foreword by Arthur Dell Orto, PhD


Preface


Acknowledgments


PART I. A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH


  1.  Finding the Family in Rehabilitation Counseling


Michael J. Millington, Benjamin C. Jenkins, and R. Rocco Cottone


  2.  Counseling in the Context of Family Identity


Michael J. Millington and Rosamond H. Madden


  3.  Counseling in the Context of Family Empowerment


Terri Lewis, Michael J. Millington, and Irmo Marini


  4.  Rehabilitation Counseling in the Context of Family Capital


Sue Lukersmith, Charlotte Scarf, and Michael J. Millington


  5.  Family Care and Support


Michael J. Millington and Irmo Marini


PART II. FAMILY EXPERIENCE OF DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION


  6.  Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities


Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell, Nancy Molfenter, and Kristin Maxwell


  7.  Recovery, Families, and Psychiatric Disabilities


Lynda R. Matthews, Marianne Farkas, Michelle Medway, and Natalie Taylor


  8.  Brain Injury and the Family: A Guide for Rehabilitation Counselors


Charles Edmund Degeneffe and Gloria K. Lee


  9.  The Family Role in Progressive Illness


Michael Frain, Malachy Bishop, Judy Frain, Julianne Frain, Tim Tansey, and Molly K. Tschopp


10.  Family and Spinal Cord Injury


Irmo Marini and Alicia D. Brown


11.  Families of Veterans With Polytrauma Injuries in the United States: A Guide for Rehabilitation Counseling Practice


Charles Edmund Degeneffe, Mark Tucker, and Joan M. Griffin


PART III. SELECTED ISSUES FOR COMMUNITY-BASED REHABILITATION COUNSELING


12.  Cultural Perspectives on Family Attitudes Toward Disability


Michael J. Millington


13.  Family Assessments in Rehabilitation Service Provision


Elias Mpofu, Lisa Lopez Levers, Kumbirai Mpofu, Philomena Tanui, and Zakia S. Hossain


14.  Managing the Rehabilitation Environment Around Families


Terri Lewis


15.  Reflection on the Field


Irmo Marini and Michael J. Millington


Index