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From: Maureen Evers
Date: 06 Oct 2004
Time: 19:06:49 -0500
Remote Name: 68.162.186.237
I agree with your article regarding the need for SLP's to provide adjustment counseling to parents of children who stutter. I am a first year graduate student and am presently working in a stuttering clinic. During the course of the last month, I have encountered families with varying ideas regarding causes and treatment of stuttering. In your article you stressed the importance of listening to parents without judgement and facilitating dialogue that will allow parents to take the lead in disproving their own pre-conceived theories and discovering new concepts. I definitely agree with you on this. Are there specific counseling models or strategies that you use to help parents come to the best possible conclusions on their own? Since adjustment counseling strategies are not the focus of most graduate programs, do you have any suggestions regarding counseling technique books that would be valuable resources? I do not know much about the EcoMap and the Genogram models for acquiring information about families. Do you give these out to all the parties involved to fill out? Are parents filling out the information with the focus of environmental stressors in their own lives or from the perspective of how the various environmental factors play in their child's life? Overall, I thought this was an excellent article. I think more emphasis on counseling training is needed in the graduate school level. Every area of our profession requires us to fulfill this role, it is a shame that most individuals are thrust into providing this type of counseling without any real grounding.