Aspecte de informare şi consiliere pentru părinții care educă copii cu dizabilități

Abstract

Raising a child is a difficult task and being a parent of a child with special needs is a challenge. Parents can face many challenges as a result of the child's disability and lack of awareness of the disease. It has a special psychological effect on the parents’ lives. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to know how counseling can change the lives of parents and children. There are several factors that influence stress in the parents’ lives and, in addition, studies show that mothers are more affected because of the child's disability because she is the sole caregiver of the child. The child's disability is the main cause of anxiety and depression in parents. If these parents are counseled, they will be able to meet these challenges and help them cope. Cognitive behavioral counseling will help change negative emotions, thoughts, and behavior. In this article we will describe different methods of counseling, such as existential counseling, Gestalt counseling, the concept of B.F.Skinner of the classical and operant condition, family therapy and interpersonal therapy (IPT). When counseling parents, they go through six stages of adjustment. Thus, through counseling, parents are able to take better care of the child and will be able to have a better quality of life.