Social and psychological counseling for parents of children with disabilities
The main task of specialists in their interaction with the family of a child with disabilities is not only to issue recommendations for the treatment and upbringing of the child, but also to create conditions that would maximally stimulate family members to actively solve emerging problems. Family, counseling, psychotherapy and psychocorrection work are stages of a single psychoconsultative and therapeutic process aimed at restoring and strengthening the mental health of the individual through the normalization of relations in the family. For a family raising a "special" child, such functions as correctional and developmental, compensating and rehabilitative are important, the purpose of which is to restore the child's psychophysical and social status, achieve their material independence and social adaptation. Understanding the family as a system leads, in turn, to understand the need for an integrated approach to the organization of clinical psycho-pedagogical correction of deviations in development of children, physiological system of the mother-child, the family system as a whole. Purpose is to help specialists in the field of special (correctional) psychology, defectology and pedagogy to master the knowledge and skills necessary to work with the family. Specialists have a unique opportunity to rely in their work on the most interested people in its success-parents who become their partners. Parents, in turn, master the tools necessary to effectively help their own children. Methods: observation, interviews, questionnaires, testing, and projective methods. In the course of the study, the goals and objectives of working with families raising children with disabilities were determined, and the most effective forms of organizing the psychotherapeutic and correctional-pedagogical process of cooperation between specialists and parents were considered. Forms of individual work with parents of children with disabilities are proposed. Psychotherapy and psychocorrection, used in the consulting practice of working with children with disabilities, includes various methods. Keywords: children with disabilities, social and psychological counseling, methods of psychotherapy and psychocorrection, forms of interaction with the family.