Every year, about 1 in 1 in 4,000 people in the United States and worldwide is diagnosed with an eye disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa. This condition is characterized by slow, progressive loss of peripheral vision, decreasing visual clarity and acuity, the loss of color perception, and night blindness (https://nei.nih.gov/health/pigmentosa/pigmentosa_facts). It is typically diagnosed in childhood, but some individuals are not affected until adulthood. The rate, the degree, and range of progression is different for different people, some lose vision in middle school or high school, others in their 20s. Majority of people with Retinitis Pigmentosa become legally blind by age 40. There is no cure, no treatment for this condition, so diagnosis of Retinitis Pigmentosa leaves the individual and the family facing emotional, education, psychological, and social consequences that come with losing vision forever and irreversibly (Chacón-López, López-Justicia & Vervloed, 2013).
It is important for a counsellor to be knowledgeable about medical conditions because they affect the clients’ attitudes and behaviors. In most cases, people with chronic illness and disability require a greater deal of therapeutic understanding within a treatment setting. For instance, drugs used …show more content…
Nurture on the other hand emphasizes on all the environmental variables that influence a person’s being, such as early childhood experiences, the parenting styles, social relationships, and culture existing in our environment. That brings us to probably one of the most controversial issue in the developmental psychology “nature versus nurture” influences in human growth. To what extent are we the products of biology and our genetic makeup? To what extent are we shaped by our surroundings, environment, culture, religion, and
It is important for a counsellor to be knowledgeable about medical conditions because they affect the clients’ attitudes and behaviors. In most cases, people with chronic illness and disability require a greater deal of therapeutic understanding within a treatment setting. For instance, drugs used …show more content…
Nurture on the other hand emphasizes on all the environmental variables that influence a person’s being, such as early childhood experiences, the parenting styles, social relationships, and culture existing in our environment. That brings us to probably one of the most controversial issue in the developmental psychology “nature versus nurture” influences in human growth. To what extent are we the products of biology and our genetic makeup? To what extent are we shaped by our surroundings, environment, culture, religion, and