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“The most effective professional – indeed, the person who makes the biggest difference in one’s own life and in others’ lives, too – is empowerful and collaborative.

Empowerful: To be an empowered person is to know  what you want, to have the motivation to “go for it,” and to have the knowledge and skills to turn your motivation into effective action, into the realisation of a goal.

Collaborative: To be collaborative is to share resources among individuals, work jointly with others, and create a context that enhances collective action.”

This text book examines the concepts of:

• empowerment, through looking at the historical and current roles of families and parents; schools as systems; and building reliable alliances
• families, covering key characteristics; family interaction; functions and family life cycle
• collaborating for empowerment – communicating among reliable allies; meeting families’ basic needs; referring and evaluating for special education; individualising for appropriate education; extending learning into home and community; advocating for systems improvement.