✦ LIBER ✦

Reaching for Independence: Counseling Implications for Youth With Spina Bifida

✍ Scribed by Dawn C. Brislin

Publisher: American Counseling Association
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 239 KB
Volume: 86
Category: Article
ISSN: 1556-6678
DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2008.tb00623.x

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Spina bifida, a congenital physical disability, is indirectly associated with difficulties in scholastic achievement, social development, and self‐determination. Environment can have an impact on psychosocial development and impede functioning academically, socially, and vocationally. Counselors must be aware of the societal atmosphere to identify potential difficulties and more efficiently meet the needs of children and adolescents with spina bifida.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Research Priorities for Mental Health Co

Research Priorities for Mental Health Counseling With Youth: Implications for Counselor Preparation, Professional Development, and Research

✍ Elizabeth A. Mellin; Terry L. Pertuit 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 American Counseling Association 🌐 English ⚖ 140 KB

Counselors encounter the needs of youth (3-17 years) in a variety of settings; however, outside of school counseling, the profession faces a lack of preparation, professional development, and research focused on mental health practice with youth. Using the Delphi method, 12 counselor educators and 1