part 1:

After watching the 30 min documentary "Two Kids. Two Undiagnosed Disabilities," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFlzCPAdKC8 think about the experience of a family raising a child or children with special needs.

a. What is ambiguous loss? In what part of the film did the family reference their experience of ambiguous loss? Is there a time you have experienced some kind of loss that felt ambiguous? If so, share how that made you feel and any stress it created in your life.

b. What are the 3 subsystems of internal context? Describe how the parental subsystem was impacted in the film. How might siblings and grandparents be impacted in the example of the family in the film?

c. List the 4 primary external contexts and describe the role each ones plays in the documentary.

part 2:

a. describe mental illness and physical illness. How are they the same? How are they different?

b. How does illness create stress in each of the examples presented in the videos (Wonder 20/20, Diagnosis and A Marriage to Remember)? https://abc.com/shows/2020/episode-guide/2017-11/17-111717-wonder-boy, diagnosis on Netflix episode 5, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZu51MnqfF4

c. Define empathy. How is it a factor in caring for people experiencing physical and mental illness?

Part 3:

After watching the brief documentary "End Game," on Netflix and reflect on the following questions

a. How does the loss of a family member create stress in a family?

b. What are some coping tools you have personally used or you saw being used in "End Game?"

c. How long does grief last? Describe the grief process and resources to support grief in families.

Part 4:

a. Define addiction. Define recovery. What is the difference?

b. Describe choices parents can make to prevent or mitigate alcohol use in their children.

c. List 3 things you learned from the Ted Talk. https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_botticelli_addiction_is_a_disease_we_should_treat_it_like_one

Part 5:

viewing the video from the Family Acceptance Project https://familyproject.sfsu.edu/family-videos, discuss the experiences and challenges from both the parent's and the child's perspective. What resources might help this family using the PFLAG https://pflag.org/find-resources/ website?