Concept of Counselling in Special Education

CONCEPT OF COUNSELLING

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Counselling is a process through which individuals are helped to improve their understanding of themselves and their relationship with others, as well as to have great depth in understanding the conditions within which they live. Counselling is the core of guidance and can be rendered to an individual (individual counselling) or to a group (group counselling) counselling is also a personalized service involving at least two person – the counsellor and the counselle in a warm permissive relationship doing which the client is helped to develop and improve ability to solve personal adjustment problems and to achieve positive growth.

Counselling is also a process of self discovery that can help people learn how to deal more effectively with situation in their lives such as depression, addiction and substance abuse, stress, problems with self esteem, grieve, issues related to mental and environmental health and rational relational problems. The process help people feel more comfortable with themselves, others and help develop some of the skills needed to deal with the tension that come from inside. Counselling process help people get “unstuck”. Through the development of insight and increase self awareness, people are able to gain a better understanding of their own behaviour. Conditions issues, feelings, and event that motivate them. The most useful benefit of counsellor is often an improvement in health and  well being. This often translate into increase self confidence, productivity and a greater sense of vitality and peace of mind. People of any age can grow and profit from the experience of counsellor.

Counselling is a relationship between a concern person and a person with a need this relationship is usually person to person although sometimes it may involve more than two people. It is design to help people to understand and clarify their views and learn how to reach their self determine goals through meaningful well informed choices, and through the resolution of emotional or interpersonal problems it can be seen from this definitions that counselling can have different meanings.

ENUMERATE THE NEEDS FOR PARENTAL COUNSELLING FOR PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS FAMILY

Parents of special needs children have the same hope and dream as all parents. So when parents learn that their children has a disability or a chronic illness they began a journey that lead them to a life that is often filled with strong emotion, difficult choices, interactions with many different professionals and specialist and an ongoing needs for information and services. Parents initially do not know where to start from, how to seek for assistance, information, understanding and support.

Having and living with a child with disabilities can have a profound effect on the entire family that is the parents, siblings, friends, and the entire family. Disability promote a derogatory terms which affects the entire family most especially the parents of such child. The impact often depends on types of disability, severity, position of the child, family social economic status and position, their educational status and lives they live. These accompany by series of emotional reaction from both parents therefore, there is need for professionals to help such parents. The followings are some of the reason why some of the reasons why parents of children with disability need help.

1.      Ignorance: as common disability is, yet most people know little or nothing about it. They do not know the causes of disability, prevention and management. So parents needs orientation on positive factors of disability and ways to prevent the occurrence.

2.      Public attitudes: The public general attitude to all forms of disability in the past was barbaric. This attitude had improve but in Nigeria due to some factors such as religion, tradition among other things. People are still bias towards children with disabilities

3.      Sense of guilt: Parents of children with disability often develop sense of guilt and blame themselves for the cause of their wards problem. This feeling leads to depression and other health problems among these parents thereby they need the helps of professional so as to prevent further complications.

4.      Service provider: Parents of children with disability often needs help because often the needs of a child with disability at times is cumbersome. these includes health issues, academics problems, social problems, mobility etc. parents therefore parents needs information on how and where to get the professionals and facilities needed for their child. Parents are therefore bombard with who can be of help and what strategy can be used to train such children. Parents also need to learn how to adjust to their new life with a child with disabilities. This is because parents of children with disabilities are likely to experience social economic hardship assign stressor in finding services and help for the Childs’ condition.

5.      Managements: Managing emotional behaviour experience lot of emotional problem often because of the attitude of the public towards them, this include depression, anger, anxiety, social problem, parents are more concern on the effects of such on their children and how they can be of help to them. Therefore parents need help on the tips of management of these children.