When Working with Families of a Child with a Disability,it

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When working with families of a child with a disability,it is important for the professional to focus on the families' strengths and resources and not solely on the challenges of raising such a child.

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Definitions:

Uninvolved Pattern

A parenting or relationship style characterized by a lack of responsiveness and emotional warmth towards others.

Strange Situation

A standardized procedure devised by Mary Ainsworth in the 1970s to observe attachment relationships between a caregiver and child.

Ainsworth

An American-Canadian developmental psychologist known for her work in the development of attachment theory, famously through the "Strange Situation" assessment, which identifies patterns of attachment in young children.

Attachment

The strong, enduring, emotional bond between a child and its caregivers that some psychologists consider the basis for relationships later in life.