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The Challenge of Disability: Being Solution Focused with Families
Author(s) -
Coles Don
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2001.tb01316.x
Subject(s) - perception , work (physics) , project commissioning , psychology , miracle , sort , population , field (mathematics) , publishing , sociology , computer science , political science , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , demography , mathematics , neuroscience , pure mathematics , information retrieval
There is sometimes a perception in the counselling field that work in the area of disability is qualitatively different from all other work. Counsellors can easily disqualify themselves from thinking they have anything to offer when disability is present. This paper highlights the effects and limitations of the sort of thinking which defines clients according to their membership of a particular clinical population, and challenges counsellors to consider what they have to offer in this area. The paper describes the utilisation of a solution focused framework with families who have a child or adolescent with a disability. Some examples of the use of the ‘miracle’ question are described, with a consideration of dilemmas raised where disabilities are long term and unchanging.