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Counsellors’ attitudes towards Disability Equality Training (DET)
- Author:
- PARKINSON Gill
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 34(1), February 2006, pp.93-105.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper explores the attitudes and conceptions held by trainee and practising counsellors towards people with disabilities. Awareness of counsellors’ own views of disability and impairment can complicate the counsellor–client relationship when the latter is seen primarily from a deficiency model perspective or self-defined model of disability, rather than a person in their own right. DET was introduced to 25 counsellors on a postgraduate training programme. Participants indicated that coverage of disability awareness and equality issues was vital if they were to reflect the principles of open access to counselling services for all, as set out in the Disability Discrimination Act Part III (1996, 1999). Benefits and implications of inclusion of this subject area in counsellor training and suggestions for content are considered in the light of the author's own experience of counselling as a disabled person.