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Understanding Families - Supportive Approaches to Diversity, Disability, and Risk (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Understanding Families - Supportive Approaches to Diversity, Disability, and Risk (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Today's American families are more complex and diverse than ever
before-and today s child and family professionals must be fully
prepared to meet their needs. Interventionists educators, health
care professionals, therapists, and social workers will get the
strong foundation they need with the NEW edition of this trusted
textbook, a comprehensive guide to working effectively and
respectfully with contemporary families. Highly respected experts
Marci Hanson and Eleanor Lynch have expanded and updated their
bestselling text, weaving in cutting-edge research on social,
demographic, and economic changes and connecting the research to
best practices in family-centered care. With a strong emphasis on
family resilience, this book gets preservice and in-service
professionals ready to work with a broad range of families with
diverse structures, backgrounds, and circumstances communicate and
collaborate effectively with every family they serve support
families of children with disabilities advance strong parent-child
attachment and interactions match services and supports with each
family s desired goals and outcomes address risk factors such as
poverty, addiction, and violence promote the mental health of young
children and their parents apply human development theories in
their work with children defuse common sources of tension between
families and professionals With this cornerstone textbook, the new
generation of child and family professionals will have the research
and practical guidance they need to improve the lives and outcomes
of 21st-century families. WHAT'S NEW Timely new information on:
Demographic changes in the past decade Cultural and linguistic
diversity Economic issues caused by the recession The needs of
infants and very young children Infant mental health
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