Assignment Task:
After reading Chapter 5 (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Understanding Stress and Resilience in Family Systems Families & Change, Sixth Edition by Dr. Kami L. Gallus and Dr. Briana S. Nelson Goff), watching the 30 min documentary "Two Kids. Two Undiagnosed Disabilities," and reviewing the slides, think about the experience of a family raising a child or children with special needs.
1: What is ambiguous loss? In what part of the film did the family reference their experience of ambiguous loss? Is there a time you have experienced some kind of loss that felt ambiguous? If so, share how that made you feel and any stress it created in your life.
2: What are the 3 subsystems of internal context? Describe how the parental subsystem was impacted in the film. How might siblings and grandparents be impacted in the example of the family in the film?
3: List the 4 primary external contexts and describe the role each ones plays in the documentary.