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The volume examines the many variables that shape the ways families respond to childhood disability and the extent to which they can overcome the physical, cultural and social barriers to a satisfactory lifestyle.

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• I Conceptual Framework
• 1 Introduction and Conceptual Framework I: Social and Cultural Systems(p. 3)
• 2 Conceptual Framework II: Family Systems Theory and Childhood Disability(p. 17)
• 3 All Families Are Not Alike: Social and Cultural Diversity in Reaction to Childhood Disability(p. 57)
• II The Family Life Cycle
• 4 Becoming the Parent of a Child with a Disability: Reactions to First Information(p. 97)
• 5 Childhood: Continuing Adaptation(p. 121)
• 6 Looking to the Future: Adolescence and Adulthood(p. 153)
• III The Family System
• 7 Effects on the Family as a System(p. 181)
• 8 Effects on Fathers(p. 218)
• 9 Effects on Siblings(p. 233)
• 10 Effects on Grandparents(p. 261)
• IV Approaches to Intervention
• 11 Professional-Family Interaction: Working toward Partnership(p. 279)
• 12 Perspectives and Approaches for Working with Families(p. 315)
• 13 Applying a Partnership Approach to Addressing Family Resources, Concerns, and Priorities: Developing Family Service Plans(p. 345)
• References(p. 381)
• Index(p. 421)

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CHOICE Review

A well-written, well-organized book that not only is the source of numerous insights but is also a pleasure to read. Drawing from a vast amount of empirical research as well as the personal accounts of parents, the authors present a scholarly, comprehensive, and integrated examination of the responses of families to the experience of childhood disability. Especially impressive is the use of an ecologically oriented systems perspective in their analysis. In addition, the authors explore, with care and sensitivity, diverse approaches to helping families with disabled children. The result is an authoritative, one-of-a-kind resource that will be of immense value to students and practitioners working with "special children" and their families, particularly in the fields of special education, social work, and pediatrics. Excellent, extensive end-of-chapter reference lists. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -A. N. Maluccio, University of Connecticut

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Milton Seligman, PhD, is Professor and Chair, Counseling Psychology Program, University of Pittsburgh.
Rosalyn Benjamin Darling, PhD, is Doctoral Coordinator of the Program in Administration and Leadership Studies, Department of Sociology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.