Family Center Care & Parents

Some of these should be obvious. Intellectual capacity, socioeconomic status, the presence of other children in the home, parental illness, distance to the treatment centre, institutional constructs and professional caregiver characteristics are all factors. Think about these for a little while and see if you can come up with one or two defining statements for each and analyze how they effect family centred care.

It might help you if you expand them and look at each of these factors and how they impact on family centred care, rather than just making a list. How would you adjust for them if you were faced with one or more of them as barriers?