Social Welfare Department

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• Social Welfare Department
• Clinical Psychological Service Branch
• Central Psychological Support Service
• Staff Training for ICCC
• Topic Parent Work (1)

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Presentation Outline

• Introduction
• Disability Family
• Counseling Process
• Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP)
• Conclusion

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Disability Family

• Reaction to diagnosis
• Shopping for services
• Challenges on family functioning
• Marital Conflict
• Emotional reaction

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Counseling Process

• Educative counseling
• Parent training
• Facilitative counseling
• Personal advocacy counseling

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Disability Family (1)

• Reaction to Diagnosis
• Type of disability
• Condition of disability -- insidious vs obvious
• How information is provided

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Disability Family (2)

• Shopping for Services
• Overstated problem
• Reasons for shopping
• seek opinion, feel disrespectful, misunderstand
  their role, disagree with professional judgement
• Determine reasons sort out information

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Disability Family (3)

• Challenges on family functioning
• language difficulties
• problem in child management
• lack of emotional attachment
• poor self-care skills

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Disability Family (4)

• Marital conflict
• trigger latent conflicts
• help parents to aware of causes of frustration
• help parents to meet personal needs

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Disability Family (5)

• Emotional reaction
• Mother guilt, anger, embarrassment, jealousy,
  depression, helplessness, hopelessness
• Father depression, low self-esteem
• Sibling jealousy, Cinderella Syndrome,
  embarrassment, guilt, anxiety

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Counseling Process (1)

• Educative Counseling
• provide and explain information on disability
• refer parents to written materials, professionals
  and parents organization
• provide information on training

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Counseling Process (2)

• Parent training
• child development, parent-child interactions
• behavioral management
• interpret available information and technique

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Counseling Process (3)

• Facilitative counseling
• information is realistic but not overwhelming
• help to understand not parents fault
• help to avoid over-protection
• help to aware of communication pattern
• help to instill realistic hope
• help to meet family needs

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Counseling Process (4)

• Personal advocacy counseling
• process of helping parents to actively and
  purposively work for their own welfare
• hard and soft services
• coping with pressure from professionals
• search for appropriate welfare
• experience a sense of control over their life

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Individual Family Service Plan

• Systematic way of providing service
• Family-centered services
• Coordinated service from different professional
• Team work approach
• Parent-professional collaboration

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IFSP Forms

• Background Information
• Concerns Priorities
• Child Family strengths
• Present Levels of Development
• Goals and Outcomes
• Services
• Transition Plan

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Principles of IFSP

• Family centered services
• Family-professional relationships
• Effective team functioning
• Services coordination

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Developing IFSP

• Reviewing family concerns priorities
• Describing childs present abilities
• Developing functional prioritized outcomes
• Building on strengths resources
• Determining team services for each outcome
• Planning for transitions

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Developing IFSP (1)

• Reviewing family concerns priorities
• collect information by meeting parents at home
  and school
• review and discuss concerns priorities
• sample questions for discussion
• sample concerns priorities

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Developing IFSP (2)

• Describing childs present abilities
• assess by Multi-Disciplinary Team(MDT) and
  results disclose by professional
• solicit a summary of eligibility for special
  services
• solicit a description of abilities and strengths

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Developing IFSP (3)

• Developing functional, priortized outcomes
• family share and elaborate concerns wishes
• professionals discuss about important family
  needs
• family and professionals rank orders together
• outcomes worded as behavioral objectives

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Developing IFSP (4)

• Building on strengths and resources
• review information to identify existing strengths
  and resources
• include all family members and support network
• include different type of resources

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Developing IFSP (5)

• Determining team services for each outcome
• discuss how family professional sources used
• used simple sentences that address who, what,
  where, how often
• state the outcome as functional/ practical measure

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Developing IFSP (6)

• Planning for Transition
• Type of transition
• Transition Problems
• Consideration of planning transition
• Time Frames