What benefits can patients receive from counseling sessions with social workers?
The counseling sessions provide an important place for persons with epilepsy to discuss social and personal issues that the physician may not have time or expertise to address. Counseling sessions may be especially beneficial for children, helping them to understand issues of independence, maturity, and personal growth. Sometimes social workers help to identify when parents’ overprotectiveness is adversely affecting a child with epilepsy. They are also used to sort out other domestic issues. In general, counseling sessions help to discuss, put in perspective, better understand, and cope with troubling issues that somehow relate to or affect the treatment of epilepsy. Topic Editor: Steven C. Schachter, M.D.
