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Psychological Counseling for People with Special Needs: Challenges and Prospects (Conference on Integrative Growth and Development in Special Education: Creating Knowledge for the Futures)
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
Mecca | 2022 | p. 173-189
ISBN/ISSN: 
ISBN 978-9-96-099388-1
Author: 
Abdulaziz Ali Alghamdi
Corporate author: 
Umm Al-Qura University; Ministry of Education
Region: 
Arab States

The study aims to identify the importance of psychological counseling for people with special needs and their families and the challenges facing them and the role of the psychological counselor in guiding them, through literature and studies in this field between (2015–2022). The study concluded that people with special needs have different guiding needs in terms of accepting disability and disorders that arise due to disability and integrating them with society and the resulting challenges that require guidance intervention, which increases the importance of psychological guidance for the study sample and the role of the psychological guide for this group to be familiar with information related to disability, help them to identify the nature of his disability, treatment and fate, and help solve his psychological, social, family and study problems, whether at the level of the individual or his family. Recommendations related to the results of the study were also made.

Resource Type: 
Research papers / journal articles
Theme: 
Diversity / cultural literacy / inclusive
Human rights
Level of education: 
Lifelong learning
Non-formal education
Keywords: 
Psychological counseling
Persons with disabilities
الإرشاد النفسي
تعليم ذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة
الأشخاص ذوو الإعاقة