Conducting effective conferences with parents of children with disabilities: a guide for teachers/
Milton Seligman
- New York :: Guilford Press, c2000.
- xiii, 303 p.
Families and the Schools -- Inclusion -- What Is the Teacher's Role? -- A Family Systems Perspective -- The Responsibility for Parent-Teacher Conferences -- Giving Support and Encouragement -- Effect of Teachers -- Administrators and the Home-School Relationship -- School Climate and School Administrators -- Influencing a Reluctant System -- Human Characteristics and Development of a Professional Helper -- Parents and Teachers: Reciprocal Views -- Teachers' Attitudes toward Pupils -- Schools, Families, and Distancing -- Teachers' Attitudes toward Parents -- Teachers' Attitudes toward Change -- Parents' Attitudes toward Teachers -- Family Dynamics: An Overview -- Social Roles -- Coping Mechanisms -- Related Concepts -- An Introduction to Family and Social Systems -- Family Systems Theory -- Family Structure -- Family Life Cycle -- Family Reaction to Childhood Disability -- Stages of Mourning -- Chronic Sorrow -- Psychosocial Stresses Associated with Childhood Illness/Disability -- Marital Adjustment, Divorce, and Single Parenthood -- Families of Children with Different Disabilities -- Mothers, Fathers, Siblings, and the Extended Family -- Chronic Burden of Care -- Developmental Transitions -- Basic Principles of Interviewing -- Personality Characteristics and Interpersonal Style -- Values and the Parent-Teacher Conference -- The Setting of the Conference -- Establishment of Goals -- The Information-Oriented Interview -- The Experiential Interview -- Listening -- Barriers to Effective Conferences.