✦ LIBER ✦
Serving Clients With Hearing Loss: Best Practices in Mental Health Counseling
✍ Scribed by Lisa Fusick
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 820 KB
- Volume
- 86
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1556-6678
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✦ Synopsis
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.