A CHILD WITH DISABILITIES IN FOSTER CARE: FEATURES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL SUPPORT
The article discusses the issues of placing a child in a foster family, accompanied by a change in his status, decentralizing the perception of himself as an orphan child and gaining a new identity as a home child. The process of adopting a child is seen as a period of fears, hopes, expectations and illusions. It is emphasized that the essence of psychological and pedagogical support of a child is the need to shift the attention of the substitute family (its pedagogical orientation) from the fact of the adopted child's limited health opportunities (HIA), from a «pitiful» and disabling attitude to him to creating conditions for raising him as a happy person. The author reveals the concept of a competent version of parenthood.