ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the family dynamic relating to, and often reflecting, the referred child’s capacity and attitude to learning skills and tasks. The dynamic of family behaviour sometimes mirrored their referred child’s learning problems, particularly in relation to communication. Observation offers insight into secure or insecure patterns of attachment behaviour seen in the interaction between family members. Encouraging them to express opinions and feelings about each other either enhances or inhibits their willingness to acknowledge the significance of family loss or transitions. Meanwhile the parents were still engaged with the shared problem of control, until the mother’s initiative solved the anxiety about the use of the one-way screen. In families who are secure in their attachments, losses will be managed in a way that enables the family, and the individual members within it, to mourn, express anger, sadness or joy, and to play, explore, learn, and continue their goal-seeking.
