Emotions and Family Support (Not just

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Emotions and Family Support(Not just
touchy-feely stuff)Noel D. Matkin,
Ph.D.Professor EmeritusUniversity of Arizona
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PREMISE

• COOPERATIVE, INVOLVED CARGIVERS ARE CRUCIAL TO
  SUCCESSFUL HABILITATION OF INFANTS AND YOUNG
  CHILDREN WITH A HEARING LOSS

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Key Considerations Comprehensive Family Support
Program

• Premise 1 Adequate Parenting Skills
• Premise 2 Three Types of Support
• Premise 3 Support Over Years
• Premise 4 Use Various Approaches
• Premise 5 Consider Non-traditional
  Family Structures
• Premise 6 Respect Differences Across Cultures

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EDUCATION

• 90 Two normal hearing parents
• 60 First child
• 40 Different culture

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GUIDANCE

• Telling someone what you believe they should do
  is often mistaken for guidance
• Deals with helping a family recognize what
  options exist for children with a hearing loss
• Also entails clinicians support of the parents
  as they make an educated choice which may not
  be the choice the clinician would make

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COUNSELING

• Information sharing is often mistaken for
  counseling.
• Deals with emotions, coping and the reaction to
  ones feelings about the hearing loss
• Is an ongoing process during clinical work it is
  not an isolated activity

Schum, 1989
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STAGES OF GRIEF

• ACCEPTANCE
• DEPRESSION
• NEGOTIATION
• ANGER
• DENIAL

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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TWO MODELS GRIEVING
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NESTED MODELCLINICIAN CLIENT INTERACTION
DOMINANT CULTURE
FAMILY SYSTEM
INDIVIDUAL TYPE
PARENT
GUIDE