Family Center Care

Question 1

Goals of Family Centered Care:

Answer 1

• To enhance the health and development of the child via partnership with the family.
• To promote the QOL of the family including:
  
  • Adults
  • Caregivers
  • Siblings
  • Extended family

Question 2

The change in structure of pediatric service delivery motor learning and function:

Reflex hierarchy model →

Child-centered Services →

Center-based Delivery →

Answer 2

→ Systems Model

→ Family-Centered

→ Natural Environment

Question 3

In a recent and local survey of PT’s (N=91 of 200 or 45%) response rate practicing in EI setting the barriers to provision of family centered care were:

Answer 3

1. Economic level
2. Cultural or ethnic
3. Educational

Question 4

Stress limiting strategies, LEARN:

Answer 4

• Listen
• Explain your perception of the situation
• Acknowledge similarities and differences
• Recommended interventions
• Negotiate an agreements on the intervention

Question 5

Providing FCC with cultural competency. Have I “ASKED” the right questions?

Answer 5

• Awareness: of personal biases
• Skill: to complete a culturally based assessment
• Knowledge: of the pt’s wolrd view
• Encounters: with people of diverse cultural background
• Desire: to want to be culturally competent.