The Role of Family Counselling in Modifying the Culture of Dealing with People with Special Needs

Abstract

Caring for people with special needs is an important issue that imposes itself on the family and invades its security and stability. In coexisting with or
confronting a disability, the presence of a disabled person among its members must leave traces, albeit simple, as they differ from one family to another
depending on several factors, the most important of which are the severity and type of disability, the disabled’s gender, the family’s structure, and its cultural,
social and economic levels. Family counseling is considered the main entry point for providing services that support the family and re-correct some concepts that express a lack of awareness of how to deal with this category, so we tried in this research paper to shed light on the role of family counseling in modifying this view towards people with special needs through what it offers from Preventive programs and services contribute to this.