Sentences with phrase «contemporary social arrangements»

Locating the problem in contemporary social arrangements — rather than the child — leads to the conclusion that interventions to build resilience in families of children with ID, with the goal of helping them beat the odds, are insufficient.

Our own position is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the heightened levels of psychological distress and dysfunction found among families of children with ID: These are the result of institutionalised patterns of social value (devaluing persons with disability) and contemporary social arrangements that do not take the needs, interests and circumstances of these families into account.