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How Do I Work with Socially Handicapped Children?By Edeh Chijioke Socially handicapped children may have been abandoned by their parents. They may be the children of broken homes – their parents may have been divorced, or their parents may be dead, or one parent may be temporarily unable to cope (for example, the father or mother is ill in hospital for a long time or in prison). It is necessary for a prospective worker with such children to understand that these children with whom she or he will be working with are deprived. Whatever has brought them into residential care will have been obviously, distressing. The child who must be taken away from his family for any reason is clearly unhappy. Often, therefore, these children are “difficult”. They have experienced very real suffering and this may make them, in some cases, withdrawn and difficult to approach; in others they may be hostile or aggressive or show behavior patterns that are difficult to understand and live with. As well as children who have come into care because of family breakdown there will also be children who come into care because it is felt better for them that they be removed either temporarily or permanently from the care of their natural parents. But, it is generally felt that even a bad home is better for a child than the best of institutional homes. However, there are times or cases when children must be removed from the family because the family can no longer cope with them. They may be sent away from home by the juvenile courts – say to an approved school – and here again special workers are needed to look after them. It might interest you to note that the more unlovable a child seems the more love he actually needs. People who work with socially handicapped and “difficult” children need very special qualities. They need perhaps even more patience and understanding than other workers in the field. Above all they need to be able to care for the children with whom they are working with a clear mind – that is they must be able to be unclamping for faults. A house parent, for example, in an approved school who is constantly aware of the “crime” committed by any of the children under her care is clearly not given to be able to give to those children the sympathy and understanding as well as the discipline they so very much need, if they are to be rehabilitated and become the sort of citizens we all would like to see them become. Now, many young people, as we know, have a strong desire to give real service to the community, a desire that is so strong that it can only be satisfied by giving service to people who are handicapped. For such young people, work with socially handicapped children may be particularly satisfying. Edeh Chijioke is a Research Reporter, Publisher, and Ghostwriter on Several Issues of Human Life, Society, and Career; especially Internet Marketing Related Matters such as SEO, Viral Marketing, Adsense, and so on. For Details Visit http://allsocialproblems.com/ Now. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Edeh_Chijioke
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