Child Abuse and Counseling

Essay # 59979

Child, Youth Issues > Child Abuse
Sociology > Welfare

A look at the important role of a counselor in a child abuse case.

2,000 words () | 4 sources | MLA | 2005 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper examines a few articles that address the role of the counselor when dealing with a case of child abuse. The writer explains that the counselor's role includes helping the child itself, but also assisting the parents in dealing with the problem at hand. It concludes that a counselor needs to have a more preventative plan, which will ensure the lowering of risk factors for a child within its community.

From the Paper:

"I think it is important for the counselor to focus on preventive rather than ameliorative solutions to deliver a plan that takes school and home environments holistically and seeks to elevate community education about abuse and neglect, because this would create an environment in which young children would have less of a danger of being exposed to abuse and neglect. This is especially important when dealing with younger children because, as one source notes, "Experience is always filtered through the child's current ways of understanding. The child's mind is not a camera that takes faithful pictures of reality. However, as the mind develops, it becomes more in tune with reality" (Miller, 1989, p. 38). The overall goal to the program would be to reduce levels of violence at home, in schools, and therefore in communities."