tailieunhanh - CLINICAL INTERVIEWING - PART 8

Khi làm việc với trẻ em, nó có thể được khó để cân bằng và khách quan. Ví dụ, có một xu hướng đáng tiếc cho người lớn để xem mỗi đứa trẻ cá nhân là chủ yếu là một "đứa trẻ tốt" hoặc "đứa trẻ xấu. | 308 Interviewing Special Populations SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN WORKING WITH CHILDREN When working with children it can be hard to stay balanced and objective. For example there is an unfortunate tendency for adults to view each individual child as primarily a good kid or bad kid. If interviewers succumb to this tendency it often results in dreading the arrival of some bad child clients while celebrating the arrival of other good child clients. Similarly interviewers teachers and other adults frequently either overidentify or underidentify with children. Some adults see themselves as fully capable of understanding children because of a strong belief I was a kid once and so I know what it s like. Adults suffering from this overidentification may fail to set appropriate boundaries when necessary project their own childhood conflicts onto children and or be unable to appreciate unique aspects of children with whom they work. Other adults who underidentify with children may experience children as alien beings not yet fully part of the human race. Adults suffering from underidentification may talk about a child who is sitting three feet away as if the child were not even in the room. They also might become condescending rigid out of touch with issues children face and or unrealistic in their fears or expectations. Children are not just like us nor are they like we were when we were younger. Though different they are not unfathomable creatures either. Instead children are somewhere in the middle rapidly developing fully human deserving of respect and age-appropriate communication and information. To effectively interview children there are both educational and attitudinal requirements. We encourage mental health professionals to consider their work with children as a form of cross-cultural counseling J. Sommers-Flanagan Sommers-Flanagan 1997 . You need to be familiar with basic cognitive and social emotional developmental theory and have had some exposure to applied .