Counselling should be done for parents as well, as it helps them in understanding their ward's special needs, w.e.f to children with special needs.

1. (w.e.f. Parents of Special Children)

2. "An effort to help the client engage in those types
of behavior which will lead to a resolution of the
client's problems"
(Krumboltz, 1965)
Definition:

3. Counselling is the service
offered to the individual
who is under going a
problem and needs
professional help to
overcome it.
Meaning:

4. • The parents of children with special needs
have to adjust to a wide variety of emotional
and psychological problems .
• Counselling is a formal procedure or
transaction in which both counselor and
parents aim to find a mutually acceptable plan
of adjustment.
• Counselling should be a continuous process,
in which the parents can learn to accept the
child as a different rather than a lesser person

5. Stages of Adjustment :
Stage one
The parent may be shocked, and he or
she may cry or become dejected.
Sometimes parents may express their
feelings through physical outbursts or,
occasionally, inappropriate laughter.

6. Stage two
 This is an extension of stage one, and some
parents may deny their child's disability or try
to avoid that reality in some other way.

7. Stage three
 At this stage, parents may feel anger.
 They may demonstrate their anger
outwardly, in the form of rage, or become
withdrawn Verbally attacking anyone
 If the parents are feeling angry, guilty, or
both, professionals must understand this
stage is a very positive point to reach in the
process of adjustment and not become
defensive if attacked.

8. Stage four
 Parents become resigned to the fact that their
child has a disability.
 For a few parents, retreating, accompanied by
an attempt to hide the child, especially from
friends and persons during organized or routine
social encounters may be the first sign that they
have begun to accept the fact their child has a
disability.

9. Stage five
 This is the stage of acceptance, meaning the
parents have achieved an unconditional
positive regard for the child.
 Parents not only begin to understand and
appreciate their child.

10. • Reaching this stage is highly correlated with
the school inviting parents to become team
members in a program with caring
professionals, and often paraprofessionals, that
is designed to meet all of the child's needs.

11. Stage six
Parents are able to put their lives back
together and enjoy living, imagine a
future, and talk of their child free of
undue emotion.

12.  Because schools accept students
with disabilities, they have a
responsibility to provide support or
see that appropriate support
 The school may provide parent- to-
parent support groups, which are
divided by disability and facilitated
by school personnel such as a
school psychologist, counselor, or
teacher.

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