Building and Maintaining Resilient Families:
A Guide for Professional Service Providers
A practical, research-based guide to help school psychologists and related service providers support families of children with intense learning needs — and build the trust and collaboration that make IEP meetings and ongoing care more effective.
Supporting a family after their child is diagnosed with an intense learning need takes more than clinical expertise — it takes an understanding of the medical, psychological, financial, and relational challenges families face, and the trust to guide them through it. This research-based guide from the Ohio Family Resilience Project at Youngstown State University helps school psychologists and other related service providers do exactly that, outlining a four-stage resilience model and the specific roles providers play — from evaluator and advocate to promoter of resilience — in helping families navigate IEP meetings and beyond.
Download the full guide below, and watch the companion video for a closer look at putting these strategies into practice.
Project Directors: Richard W. VanVoorhis, D.Ed. & Kenneth L. Miller, Ph.D.
Authors: Richard W. VanVoorhis, D.Ed., Kenneth L. Miller, Ph.D., Susan M. Miller, Ph.D., Morgan Fisher, Ma.Ed., and Maggie Galentine, M.Ed