Chapter 7: Psychosocial Aspects of Hearing Loss and Counseling Basics

7 Chapter 7: Psychosocial Aspects of Hearing Loss and Counseling Basics

Introduction
Psychosocial Aspects of Hearing Loss
- Growing Up with Hearing Loss
- Acquiring Hearing Loss as Adults
- About Being Deaf
- Deafness with a Capital “D”
“Knowing Is Not Enough”: Counseling Basics
- Important Distinctions
- What We May Think Counseling Is
- What Counselors Say Counseling Is
- The Counseling Process
- When to Refer

Hearing Loss Simulations – Activity that allows you to listen to what different degrees and configurations of hearing loss might sound like
Hearing Loss profile – Activity that allows you to select a hearing loss and then see what types of communication concerns might go along with that hearing loss
Quizlet – Self Quiz
Figure 7.5 of this chapter is an empty grid that helps people sort out the pluses and minuses of making a decision. Sketch out this grid on a blank piece of paper. Put yourself in the “shoes” of a woman, age 55, who works as a nurse of the post-op floor of a typical hospital. She has a bilateral moderate hearing loss but has not yet decided to get hearing help. Fill out the grid as she might fill it out. If either column is significantly longer than the other, keep thinking. When we genuinely empathize with others, we will see more concerns through their eyes than we see with our own.
Ask a study partner to role-play a 14-year-old male with a hearing loss who has decided not to use his hearing aids any more. The study partner then completes the Self-Assessment of Communication-Adolescents (see Chapter 7 Appendix in your textbook). Discuss the answers. What did you and the study partner not con- sider before? If this teen indicated “almost never” to most situations, what does that tell us?

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