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This is where Basic Needs Group 4 is to post their discussion about Module 11 Assignment.

Samantha Takacs
 * 1) **What roles does families basic needs play in their quality of life?** The book suggest that families basic needs play an extremely important part on the families quality of life. Families need to be provided with social support, economic support, and family support. A families basic needs can greatly alter their health, productivity, physical environment, emotional well being, and their family interaction. The book suggest that families in poverty and families not in poverty still need help to meet their basic needs, which improves the whole families life. When families experience very expensive medical bills or another other bills their focus becomes on making money and trying to meet those needs as opposed to meeting other important needs. As a professional it is important that we provide them with the resources to help them met some of their basic needs so that the children, as well as the adults, in the family can succeed without the stress of meeting those basic needs. Families who cannot meet some of their basic needs risk putting the family in danger of violence, hunger, as well as social and educational risk. [|Impacts of Poverty on Quality of Life in Families of Children With Disabilities] This link will bring you to an exceptional article on how poverty affects a student with disabilities. Interestingly enough this article was written by the authors of our textbook. It is a more indepth understanding of the five aspects of a families life that poverty effects including: health, productivity, physical environment, emotional well being, and family interaction.
 * 2) **How can the system and professionals in the system build the families trust?** The system and the professional in the system need to make sure that they are always respectful, practice good communication, equality, and work as the families advocacy. As professionals we can help build trust by helping parents find the most current information on bilingual education for their child. When doing so you show respect for the families culture, just remember to also review the information with the parents. It is also important to help show parents resources to help them meet their basic needs. As a professional remember to ask families their preferences, explore many options and resource with the family, and try to meet the families individual priorities. It is also important to act as an advocacy for the family. If you recognize abuse or neglate it is important to properly report it. It is also important to inform parents of resources and ask other professionals to help the process.[|Building Trust with Schools and Diverse Families] This link will bring you to an article about building trust with families. Although the article is both lengthy and is focused on ELL students it still provides excellent examples of how to build trust with families that I think special education teachers may find useful. The article outlines that most important parts of building trust are the five components: benevolence, reliability, competence, honesty and openness.

Response by Danielle Smukall-

1. Samantha that article about poverty and the affects on the quality of life was very eye-opening. As someone who is going to school to teach special education I will most likely encounter all different types of families from different economic backgrounds and ethnicities. As the professional I need to know how to help these families, and most importanly help this type of student so that they can reach their full potential. I knew who poverty would obviously affect a students health, and physical environment, but it was really eye-opening how much it will affect the family interaction and the students emotional well-being. I think that communication is the key to dealing with families like this, letting them know as a professional I am here to help if they need anything and that the success of their child is my main goal! 2. This article was lengthly, but very informative for me as a future teacher. I agree with Samantha so much when she said that we as professionals have to act as an advocacy for the student and the family, meeting the families individual goals is so important in gaining their trust, which will make the communication much easier. Working as a team with the family is the key to the students success and breaking that barrier between family and teacher. Building the families trust is so important and needs to be done in a respectful and helpful way. Being reliable to the family, being competent, staying honest, being open and having benevolence are all things that will open the doors to a successful relationship.

Response by Ted Zachariadis.

1. It is so true that without basic needs support many families experience problems with health issues, emotional issues, even poor family interactions. It is extremely important as professionals, to go beyond what we know is needed to help these families be successful in the future. We need to help them by finding extra resources that will help improve on their quality of life for the student and family. Letting the families know that we care is the first step in starting to build a lasting relationship with the family. Once they know you care better communication and respect start to be built.

2. Like I said above showing you care can start a lasting relationship. Your statement about how professionals always need to make sure they are respectful, good with communication, and work to advocate for the family is right on target. Without these basics there will be no trust in the parent/professional relationship. As a professional I also agree that you must be open and honest in the relationship with parents. If you do not understand something that they want or need then you need to be honest and tell them and ask questions because in the end what is important is that the student and family are successful in all aspects of their future and it cannot happen unless you build the relationship on trust.

Response by Clarke Reilly-Leblanc

1. Thats a good example about families in poverty who have expensive medical bills or other large expenses, who lose sight on the other imprtant needs within the family and focus primarily on just making money just to stay above water. This can lead to a downfall of the family if the other basic needs are starting to not be met.

2. Respecting a families culture is probably the number one thing when it comes to building trust in a professional-family relationship. Communication is very important because parents do need to feel involved in decison making and not felt left out, like they don't have any control.

Clarke Reilly- Leblanc

[] this link provides information of the importance of meeting basic needs in a family.
 * what role families’ basic needs play in their overall quality of life?** According to the text book, families have basic needs that must be satisfied. Sometimes these needs need to be satisfied even before they can be a partner in helping with their childs educational needs. The book lists the families 4 basic needs as Emotional needs, Information needs, Financial needs, and safety needs. For emotional and safety needs, it is important to have the feeling that you are not alone and also protected and safe from harm. For information and financial needs, It is important that families are well informed so that the best decisions can be made for their child, or in ANY situation. It is also important that families are financially stable . If a family is unable to meet it’s basic needs, this can end up taking huge physical and emotional toll on the family.


 * how systems and professionals within systems can build families’ trust.** It is important that the professional be very understanding of the family’s culture and living style. The professional also needs to be very informative and have good communication. It must be made sure the the families are included in the decision making process. Professionals and the system should make it so the family feels like they have an equal say when making decisions. In doing so, this will build a strong amount of trust between eachother.



[] This link provides information about trust between professional and family relationships.

Post by Danielle Smukall

1. What role does basic needs play in a families overall quality of life.... http://www.indiana.edu/~engs/rbook/problem.html The above article I found on the internet and I talks about a families very basic needs and how those needs affect their daily life. There are different types of needs. Physiological (food, water), safety needs (shelter, protection), love and belonging, self-esteem and self actualization. In a different groups list of articles I was reading I saw that one girl made an excellent point. She stated that children who feel as though they belong somewhere and are part of something, which is an incredibly important basic need, are more inclined to follow their goals and reach them! That alone makes me think how it is not just the basic things, like food and water, but it is they way a child feels that is also a vital basic need. They have to feel like they belong somewhere and are part of a family unit, or they will not reacher their full potential!

2. How systems and professionals within systems can build a families trust.

http://www.ldonline.org/article/21522/ As future professionals we know that a student who comes from an involved family would be much better off and have much more success then a student who does not come from an involved family. As a professional we have to build a families trust in order to get them involved and cooperate. We have to respect their religion and they way of doing things in order to help them realize that we are on their side and have their child's best interest at heart. Bridging the gap between families and the school system is easy if we start off on the basis of communication, which is the most important thing. Respect and communication with the family is what is going to take use as professionals the furtherest and give us what we want and what the family wants, which is the success of their child.

Response by Daiana J. Quintero

1. Indeed Danielle, the sense of belonging in every child and person can make a difference in their performance as a student and individual in the future. Children need to feel that the belong to a family who provides everything they need to grow and develop to their highest capacity. However, if the family the child is living with is facing any emotional or financial issue it will affect the child regardless of the problem, whether it is related to the child or not.

2. Very good point when you say that "we have to respect their religion". Even though this might seem insignificant for some people it is a very important key for the success of the relationship between the professional and the family. If we do not take the time to know about their background and religious believes, then they will feel that we do not care about them and therefore, this might create a resistance for them to openly communicate with us.

Post by Daiana J. Quintero

 1. ** What role families’ basic needs play in their overall quality of life? **
 As stated in the book, the role families’ basic needs play in their overall quality of life can be significant and can somehow affect the child’s education and lifestyle. According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid there are 5 main groups of needs that every family needs to achieve in order to function optimally. These groups of needs are 1) Psychological Needs: Air, water, food, shelter, and sleep; 2) Safety and Security; 3) Love and belongingness; 4) Self Esteem; and last but not least 5) Self-Actualization: Vitality, creativity, self-sufficiency, authenticity, playfulness, and meaningfulness. If the family does not meet these needs then it will be very hard for them to fully concentrate in their child’s education. According to the book, family difficulties are not directly related to education but are indirectly related to the child’s success in school experiences. Some families might be even suffering from isolation and even loneliness and this is why we as the professionals should be there to provide the family with sensitivity, accessibility, support, and information. These families need to know and feel that they are not alone, that out there are other families who are going through the same situation as them and that can support them, and this is why we as professionals should be eager to look for this organizations that can better help families.

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 @http://www.p2pusa.org/p2pusa/sitepages/p2p-home.aspx (Parent to Parent USA - P2PUSA): This organization provides emotional and informational support for families of children who have special needs. ======

** 2. ** ** How systems and professionals within systems can build families’ trust? **
 Since the beginning of the semester, we have been learning of the importance of building families’ trust towards the professionals and the system. In this chapter, the book clearly states that “some families have very close emotional bonds; their family relationships are tight and their resistance to assistance by people outside the family may be high.” In order to loosen up this resistance we as professionals have to be honest in all situations, listen to them with attention, as we listen we need to try be respectful and nonjudgmental, we have to demonstrate loyalty. In addition to these, we have to be able to get them engaged in professional and personal growth activities and make sure all their expectations for their child are met if possible. Most important we must be responsible, reliable and be advocates for the child’s rights.

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 @http://www.pasadenachilddevelopment.org/articles/Prizant-ItsAmatterOfTrustFall08.pdf This link will take you to see an article (“Parent – Professional Relationships: It’s a Matter of Trust) that was published in Fall 2008 by The MagaJournal Autism Spectrum Quarterly. ======