Being all ears: A systemic perspective of the role of the psychologist in cochlear implantation

South African Journal of Communication Disorders

 
 
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Title Being all ears: A systemic perspective of the role of the psychologist in cochlear implantation
 
Creator Schoeman, Elsie M. Fourie, David P.
 
Subject — cochlear implants; hearing loss; systemic perspective; case study; role of the psychologist/ psychotherapist
Description For those hearing-impaired individuals who do not derive any benefit from hearing amplification, cochlear implantation sometimes provides a useful alternative. Recently cochlear implant teams started to incorporate psychological services, mainly as a means to evaluate candidates as to their suitability to receive implants. This paper shows that cochlear implants can have serious and wide-ranging repercussions for the implantee and/or for the family, sometimes necessitating psychotherapeutic services. A case study provided to illustrate the need for a much wider role for psychotherapeutic services and to also demonstrate how the adoption of a systems perspective can be of value to the therapeutic process.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2004-12-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajcd.v51i1.207
 
Source South African Journal of Communication Disorders; Vol 51, No 1 (2004); 16–22 2225-4765 0379-8046
 
Language eng
 
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https://sajcd.org.za/index.php/sajcd/article/view/207/307
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2019 Elsie M. Schoeman, David P. Fourie https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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