Parents of Mental Challenged Children and their Counselling Needs

Just as healthy body enhance our capacity to fight the disease causing elements in our body and increases our stamina .similarly healthy mind increases our capacity to withstand adverse situations of life. Enhancing mental health is the greatest challenge for the persons with mental retardation and their parents. Only parents can help, support and make home improvement in the mentally challenged persons. It becomes very necessary that first of all, the problems and requirement of such parents should be found out. This study is focused on the counseling needs of the parents of the mentally challenged persons, so that they may provide better guidance and support to their children to enable them to lead a normal life. For identifying their needs interview and observation method was used. This is exploratory research based on the study of the 20 parents, their problems, their dilemma, and their ways to handle their children.