Working with Families Series - Bond Family: Love Changes Everything: A Young Couple Forms a New Family
60 min. Mother, father, and five children. Only the two-year-old son, born prematurely with hydrocephaly and development delays, is present. Focuses on the development of a couple bond, family-of-origin relationships and acceptance, medical and EI services and hopes for the future. The parents, young working couple, are middle income, African American. Conversations with individual families explore the issues of raising a young child or children with special needs. Families are from diverse cultural, linguistic and economic backgrounds with children representing a wide range of disabilities. They are shown talking with experienced family therapists who demonstrate how to listen to a family’s story and focus on family concerns, priorities and re-sources. Discussion guides included. VHS #810.
$ 20.00 (3-week rental)