Working with Families Series - Williams Family: Strength and Vulnerability in a Family with Many Concerns
60 min. Young mother, her mother, two children, four and almost three, and mother’s niece, seven months. The three-year-old son has been diagnosed with neurofibromatosis. The focus is on family strength and vulnerabilities, multiple caregiving demands brought on by the mother’s worsening sickle cell anemia, the three-year-old’s special needs and EI services, custody issues with niece, strengths and support of African-American family, community and church, the mother’s hopes for future for herself and her children. Family is limited 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 #860.
$ 20.00 (3-week rental)