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Family Counselling Skills for People with Disabilities Training Kit

  • 2 days
  • 4 sessions
  • 120 min / session
  • 8 hours in total
  • Intermediate level
  • Arabic

Description

Having a child with a disability is an experience the family goes through across a series of psychological crises and unexpected reactions that the family is not equipped to face. From this standpoint, this training kit provides integrated content that enables counsellors and psychological and social specialists to acquire the family counselling skills necessary to help parents adapt to this crisis.

The kit also addresses how to guide families towards the available medical, therapeutic, educational and psychological options, and provides them with information that supports the family's mental health, promotes a positive image of people with special needs, and guarantees them their full rights to a dignified and safe life.

The kit also sheds light on the importance of siblings' role and their acceptance of having a sibling with a disability within the family, considering this an essential part of the family counselling process and the path to successful community inclusion.

Objectives

  • Identifying the stages of the psychological crisis that families of people with disabilities go through and the reactions accompanying it.
  • Employing effective family counselling skills to help parents adapt to the reality of having a child with a disability.
  • Guiding families towards the available medical, therapeutic, educational and social options for dealing with their child's condition.
  • Promoting the family's mental health and building a positive image of people with special needs within the home and community.
  • Clarifying the importance of siblings' role in accepting their sibling with a disability, supporting the rights of children with special needs and community inclusion.

Who it's for

Psychologists and social workers, family counsellors, and staff working with families of people with disabilities.

Training sessions

  • Opening and icebreaker activity for the training programme
  • Training video
  • The concept of family counselling for people with disabilities
  • Training activity
  • The effect of disability on the family system
  • Objectives and principles of family counselling for people with disabilities and their families
  • Training activity

Version 1 — updated 16 October 2026

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Frequently asked questions

Psychologists and social workers, family counsellors, and staff working with families of people with disabilities.

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