Serving Clients With Hearing Loss: Best Practices in Mental Health Counseling

This article examines the risk factors and characteristics of clients with hearing loss, including inequitable access to education and mental health care services, financial barriers, communication problems, and societal discrimination. Culturally specific counseling approaches and techniques for me...

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Published in:Journal of counseling and development 2008, Vol.86 (1), p.102-110
Main Author: Fusick, Lisa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to Education
Achievement tests
Alcohol use
Behavior Problems
Care and treatment
Children & youth
Communication
Communication Problems
Costs
Counseling
Counseling Techniques
Counselling
Counselor Qualifications
Cultural Relevance
Deaf
Deaf persons
Deafness
Developmental disabilities
Discrimination
Educational services
Employment
Employment skills
Families & family life
Health care policy
Health services
Hearing (Physiology)
Hearing aids
Hearing impairment
Hearing Impairments
Hearing loss
Hearing protection
High School Graduates
Individual Characteristics
Job Skills
Language acquisition
Language Skills
Learning
Literacy
Medicaid
Medical personnel
Medicare
Mental disorders
Mental Health
Mental health care
Mental health counseling
Mental health counselling
Mental health services
Methods
Population
Professionals
Psychiatric counseling
Psychological aspects
Reading comprehension
Risk
Risk factors
Secondary schools
Social Bias
Social isolation
Special education
Speech therapy
Students
Workers with disabilities
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Summary:This article examines the risk factors and characteristics of clients with hearing loss, including inequitable access to education and mental health care services, financial barriers, communication problems, and societal discrimination. Culturally specific counseling approaches and techniques for mental health counselors serving clients with hearing loss are presented, with a focus on building counselor competency and client employment skills. The use of interpreters in therapeutic settings is also discussed.
ISSN:0748-9633
1556-6676
DOI:10.1002/j.1556-6678.2008.tb00631.x