Exploring the Impact of Hearing Impairment on Self-Concept

This paper is based on a counselor exploring self-concept issues with 16 adolescents all of whom have bilateral severe to profound sensory neural hearing loss since birth. From individual discussions with the adolescents the counselor identified self-defeating thoughts that the adolescents held. The counselor then describes the group sessions they designed as a strategy to help the adolescents deal with the five major self-defeating thoughts.