Izvestno, chto rebenok s ogranichennymi vozmozhnostyami raven sem'e s ogranichennymi vozmozhnostyami. Odnako do poslednego vremeni v rossiyskikh issledovaniyakh sem'i, imeyushchie chlenov sem'i - invalidov ne vydelyalis' v otdel'nuyu gruppu. Rozhdenie rebenka-invalida yavlyaetsya dlya roditeley chrezvychayno sil'nym stressom. Protsess perezhivaniya gorya ot sostoyaniya rasteryannosti do osoznaniya i prinyatiya proizoshedshego soprovozhdaetsya znachitel'nymi narusheniyami psikhologicheskoy adaptatsii u roditeley i drugikh detey v sem'e. Izmeneniya v adaptatsii proyavlyayutsya na neskol'kikh urovnyakh: psikhologicheskom, somaticheskom, sotsial'nom. V svyazi s etim voznikaet neobkhodimost' sokhraneniya i podderzhaniya psikhicheskogo i psikhologicheskogo zdorov'ya chlenam semey s rebenkom-invalidom. Roditeli takogo rebenka yavlyayutsya, kak pravilo, osnovnymi ispolnitelyami reabilitatsionnykh meropriyatiy. Ot ikh emotsional'nogo sostoyaniya zavisit, naskol'ko budet adekvaten protsess reabilitatsii rebenka v obshchestve. Imenno poetomu chleny sem'i dolzhny stat' pervymi, komu okazyvaetsya psikhologicheskaya pomoshch' v sluchae rozhdeniya bol'nogo rebenka.
