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Step 2 – Identify your ideal situation, or your goal

Global Developmental Delay > Module 1 – Accessing social support in your role as a parent > Step 2 – Identify your ideal situation, or your goal

Your responses to the previous questions can help you to identify where you might need more social support.

What were the areas that you rated as needing this social support ‘quite often’, ‘often’, or ‘sometimes’?

Emotional support, child support, financial support, instrumental support, agency support

Choose one of these areas of social support, where you say you currently have unmet needs, to focus on improving. Remember, here is what the different types of support mean:

  • Emotional support (e.g. someone to talk to)
  • Child support (e.g. someone who interacts with and accepts your child)
  • Financial support (e.g. someone who lends you money)
  • Instrumental support (e.g. someone who does household chores)
  • Agency support (e.g. someone who obtains services for your child)
What area of social support do you wish to focus on improving right now:
What is its current rating: You have a need for this support
What is the goal for how you would like to rate your need for this social support? To improve this aspect you would want to have less need for the support. For example, maybe now you feel you need emotional support ‘quite often’, but you would like to only have that need ‘sometimes’: