Childhood Disability and Family Systems

Michael Ferrari, Marvin B. Sussman

Contributors; Editor’s Introduction; Part I: Contemporary Context of Disability 1. Childhood Disability: Prevalence and Incidence Inez Marie Fitzgerald 2. Background Forces in Policies for Care and Treatment of Disability Joseph Newman 3. The Economic and Psychosocial Consequences of Disability: Family-Society Relationships Rosalyn Benjamin Darling Part II: Ethical Issues 4. Ethical Considerations Facing Society in Rehabilitating Severely Disabled Persons John H. Noble, Jr. 5. Rights of Children Born with Disabilities: Issues, Inconsistencies, and Recommendations for Advocacy Rob Palkovitz, Christopher B. Wolfe Part III: Family Effects 6. The Family Crisis: Diagnosis of a Severely Disabled Child 7. The Hospitalization of a Child and Family Responses Dene G. Klinzing and Dennis R. Klinzing 8. Family Subsystem Functions and Disabled Children: Some Conceptual Issues Part IV: Care Systems 9. A Typology of Childhood Disorders and Related Support Services James E. Lindemann and Sally J. Lindemann 10. Professional Helpers and Families with Disabled Children: A Social Network Perspective Anne E. Kazak 11. Systems of Care for Disabled Children and Family Members: New Paradigms and Alternatives Penny L. Deiner 12. Services to Families During Three Stages of a Handicapped Person’s Life Martha W. Krauss and Janet Z. Giele 13. Analytic Essay: Transformation of Disabilities into Abilities as Portrayed in the Works of Menotti Kris Jeter