Counseling Special Populations

Introduction

The special populations are numbered mostly of children and females that are sexual abused victims. They are the common target of counseling to examine the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. The results will be in general and specific recommendations to help the victim in coping for the situation.

Today, asking about childhood abuse, in therapy, poses a considerable challenge, or even legal risks, to even experienced clinicians. Perhaps the best clinical practice is a combination of being open, trying to understand the patient’s difficulties, simply paying attention to them, while truly listening. There is considerable controversy concerning the direct questioning about childhood abuse. Critics caution that such tactics may lead to false reports and legal implications for the therapist. Lawsuits charging therapists with malpractice for suggesting and implanting false memories of past abuse are increasing in numbers in today’s courtrooms. Most often these cases involve a disgruntled former patient, but more recently, numbers are increasing for third party litigations.

Tactics of counselors

The counseling are based on data that gathered from the case and analyzing it thoroughly. The counselors should learn how to hold the emotional reactions in his personal perspective and toward the victim. The counselors should weigh the judgment well and cast-away the negative self-perceptions towards the victim or the survivor. The counselor should measure the extensions of the physical and somatic effects faced by the survivor or the victim.

The determination or identifying the sexual dysfunction or sexual abused should be taken with full respect and disregard the mocking style that the other counselors tends to do just to make the truth come out. The interpersonal relationship of the victim should also be considered and taken proper view in helping the victim to come-out with an appropriate solution. The relationship of the victim towards her family should be given emphasis and build a strong foundation.

The social effects that the victim received from the society or from the community will definitely take a center of attention. The counselor should understand the effects or the impact of social misunderstanding in the view of the victim. The addictive behaviors or different behaviors should be describe by the counselor and taken with a proper statement, consideration, and understanding. The psychological pathologies that were given the clinical result should be identified first. This is important to understand the occurrence of behaviors form the incident.

The counselor should be a good listener, they can also sympathized towards the expressed feeling but they should learn how and when to put barriers from the repressed or false memory stated by the abused party. It is different when the statements are not that consistent because it might affect the overall result of counseling. Counselors are present to help the depressed or problematic people and the advices are just result of their understanding toward the subject.

The counseling sessions is deliberating difficult in terms of understanding the disorder within the victim, sensing different feeling, and trying to come up with a proposed solution for an instance. Counselors have intentions to navigate the positive outcome from the victim.

Conclusion

The counselors are equipped with professional knowledge and broad understanding about the different issues and factors toward the life of the victim. The counselor needs to give the positive results as much as possible and guide the individuals in changing their life slowly. For over the years, the existence of counselors contributed a great impact in changing the life of some people that usually faced trauma and depression. The depression and trauma can trigger some adolescents to commit suicides, so thus it is important the counselors should take proper precautions in everything that they say about the subject matter.

Works Cited:

Behrens, J., & Maag, J., 1992. Reflections on Dysfunctional Cognitions Associated with Adolescent Depression: Finding Across Special Populations, Exceptionality Journal 3(1).

Denby, R., & Curtis, C., 2003. Why Special Populations Are Not the Target of Family Preservation Services, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 30(2).

Gobert, S., 2002. Relationship and Personality Issues in Adult Female Survivors of Childhood Incest: A Case Study, University of Wisconsin [Online] Available at: www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2002/2002goberts.pdf [Accessed 12 October 2009].