Counselling Children

Introduction

Counseling the children is of importance, given that these are young people who are more less than the adults and therefore deserve special attention, care, concern with a highest form of a positive regard.

My concern is to find out what exactly a child desire when in counseling room, what kind of attention do they deserve compared with the adults, and what deference do they have from the adults. I will also try to identify some of the techniques, skills, and the approaches used in handling these young people. And finally, see how does it work when a parent is involve when counseling a child (how do they respond?), and then see how important the assessment is, to the child during the session, using different tools.

Counseling the children

Definition of terms:

Who is a child?

A child is a per son who have not yet reached puberty, thought there is difference between 1-year old and 10 years old (Patterson, 1994).

Children- is the plural of a child meaning a collective word that distinct an adult from the child. It conclusively talks of young ones. Age 0 to 10-12 years old there.

How do children differ from the adults

The first quality of a child that counselor will notice is a limit in verbal skills. The young child has vocabulary that allows for labeling a person an object and for describing simple happenings (Patterson, 1994). But according to (Nelson, 1996), “in contrast with his older sibling who can verbalize frustration, love, anger, and acceptance, he hugs his mum, he shoots the enemy and he hands another a toy. A child may not be able to verbalize his/her emotions. Any statement of a problem is likely to stated in a simple term with little due to the cause or surrounding circumstances. Infact, children are brought to counseling (in contrast to mature client) may not agree to recognize that there is a problem or concern”(Prout, 1989).

I concur with this point because occasionally, children do communicate...