“Therapists need to have a working knowledge of the stages of the family life cycle to determine how children might be impacted when the family is ‘stuck’ in one stage and unable to transition to the next stage.”
Eliana Gil, Play in Family Therapy, 2015
Having a child with complex disabilities or a life-limiting condition takes parents into a journey that most of them had not foreseen and often knew nothing about.
Having to face that their child has a disability was not what they had in mind when they decided to have a family, this was not the way it was supposed to happen. And yet, here they are.
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