Stressful And Dysfunctional Environment And Child Counselling

Running head: COUNSELLING CHILDREN
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Introduction
The form of therapy, which focusses on the younger children, adolescents and teens
struggling with mental health concerns, stressful and dysfunctional environment is considered
as child counseling. Child counseling offers aid for the youths for healing or mending
dysfunctional behavior such as children's aggression and behavioral issues (Geldard, Geldard
& Foo, 2017). The main aim of child counseling is to assist children in coping with their
understanding regarding problems, emotions and working towards the development of
positive choices and coping programs/skills. Child counseling empowers and encourages
them to express and explore the feelings through one or multiple media with respect to the
dependence on an individual's preferences (Midgley, Hayes & Cooper, 2017). The purpose of
the paper is to respond to each case scenarios depicting a concern with child development
with counseling methods and hypothesis. The three cases demonstrate unique scenarios of the
negative influence of children from the external environment, which may be parents'
practices and behavioral approach towards a child. The paper will be concluded by
summarizing the responsive approach of each case scenario under the purview of children's
counseling.
Body
Child counseling is considered very useful for improving the behavioral approach and
emotional projection in various challenging situations. Child counseling helps to assist
children when they experience difficulties in acquiring various significant social skills.
Counselling also allows children to heal from negative or overpowering experiences, which
has resulted from the loss of family members, breakdown or even bereavement (Loughran,
2018). Children with a memory of abuse are also helped with the counseling programs and
empowerment schemes. The counseling approach is also targeted towards the state of
depression, anxiety and low self-esteem (Mthembu & Mkhize, 2019). Children suffering

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from mental, social, psychological, social and emotional distress are supported with the help
of counselors' strategy. The professionals of mental health offer services by identifying the
concerns underlying the emotional state of a child and the factors that are indirectly or
directly influencing the overall well-being and health of a child. The process of identification
helps in responding to the identified concerns efficiently with treatments and programs
(Hayes & Brunst, 2017). There are times when children are inefficient at fully processing
complexities, which can have long-term psychological or emotional effects on them. In this
case, the counselors help in working for the complete mental well-being of the children.
Case Study 1: The case of Michael- A ten-year-old
Hypothesis in response to the identified concern:
H1: If the child spends more time with the parents on the weekdays after school and office,
then it will reflect positive influence over its mental well-being.
Children spending time with parents or people with whom they feel secure can heal
their negative memory or dysfunctional behavior. Spending more time with his parents can
help the ten-year-old to learn about the bond that can help in suggesting ways for healing peer
pressure or peer conflict in other areas of his life. Spending time should be engraved with a
consistent approach to encouraging their urge of sharing events and seeking importance.
Spending time should not be concentrated only on the weekends or holidays (Midgley, Hayes
& Cooper, 2017). Moreover, responding consistently to the activities can also help the
behavioral approach or aggression of Michael. On the other hand, spending time with
Michael should be accompanied by time outs as a constant practice of spending time and
offering attention can also disrupt the space of him being completely creative and by his own
responding to the challenges. The consistent approach should be directed towards the urge of
teaching a child the significance of alone time and responding to their challenges without any
supervision.

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H2: If the parents engage with each of the activities of the child by participating in games and
homework then the child will experience support and familiarity, thereby reducing his
aggression.
The time spent with the kids should not be aimed at counting hours at a restaurant,
game or toy shop. Engagement with the life of the children is very crucial for the sanity of the
development of Michael's well-being. Involving familiarity, friendliness and at the same time
supervision by parents while participating in the games and experiences, which serves to the
comfort of the child can help Michael in learning creative ways in channeling his aggression
or energy. The physical and behavioral characteristics of toughness and aggressiveness
should not be encouraged, especially on the basis of gender (boys) as it can portray the sense
of right and natural approach of portraying aggression amongst peer groups.
H3: Creativity distributing the time of Michael in productive and learning events can help to
influence the dysfunction behavior of Michael
The practice of distributing time diligently and productively will be the aim of the
counselor and the parents, which will not capture all the playing time into study programs but
rather incorporating learning programs in every step and phase of sustaining life, which can
reshape the approach of Michael's behavior and response for any form of events and
circumstances (Hubena & Mulcahy, 2019).
Building a relationship with Michael
In counseling, especially dealing with a child, a counselor may experience resistance
in sharing content and/or engaging with the counselor. When a child or any client starts
controlling or restricting information from a counselor, it is known as client resistance. The
resistance can be reflected in different forms of resistance such as small talks and even denial
in attending sessions(Midgley, Hayes & Cooper, 2017). Resistance is depicted in the clients'