ABSTRACT
In the last decades, studies and reflections involving parents of children with disabilities have moved from negative views of conditions and prospects to valuing their resources and strengths, underlining and emphasizing the proactive role they can play on social inclusion. Therefore – as it will have the opportunity to deepen in the first part of the chapter – counselors and coaches who are interested in the inclusion issues are strongly invited to adopt a positive perspective. In the second part of the chapter, examples and proposals deriving from parent counseling, parent training and parent coaching are provided with the aim of equipping and supporting counselors and coaches in realizing more effective actions to promote inclusion in the contexts where they work with and to empower parents that could start to assume an active role toward inclusion in their everyday life.
