Parenting A Child With A Disability Summary

Introduction
This critique is based on Ha, J., Greenberg, J.S., & Seltzer, M.M’s article, Parenting a Child With a Disability: The Role of Social Support for African American Parents. This article examines the impact upon the physical and mental health of African American parents, who have children with disabilities and live in an urban environment; it also examines the impact of social interaction, positive or negative, with family members other than the spouse, to see if this helps increase or decrease the parents ability in adapting to having to care for a disabled child.
Social Concern, Main Point and Argument The main social concern in the above article would be parental physical and mental health, with the human behavior issues
The families have been able to adapt to their situation and have created a homeostatic family system, but practitioners need to be competent in acknowledging that by a system being in a steady state, it does not necessarily mean it’s a positive state. According to Beresford, 1998, families continue to remain vulnerable despite finding ways to in which they learn to cope and manage adapting to their situation, (Zastrow, 2013), thus may need that additional support from other systems such as the grandparents as identified by this article in ensuring that the family system remains homeostatic and
Given this concept, it implies the outcome of decreased physical and mental health issues would be attained within African American parents caring for a disabled child. Taking this further, the systems approach could also see this situation as facilitating the ‘exchange of support’ (Ha, J. et al., 2011) which would enhance the functioning of any given family within this population, hence coinciding with the concept of equifinality where it is suggested that the same outcome can be achieved regardless of the starting