Cochlear Implant – Psychological Specialty
Cochlear Implant Centrum Freiburg - ICFThe counseling offered by our psychological service is an important component in the treatment of our patients and their families. We address the patient’s needs, which may be very different depending on the age and “hearing history”.
For parents of deaf children
Parents make use of the help offered by our psychological service with very different issues and queries. These are often topics related to coping with the child’s disability. Questions concerning developmental psychology or clinical psychology may also be addressed. The service offers competencies in child-raising coupled with specialist knowledge concerning particular developmental aspects in deaf children.
Understanding the family as a system, we also offer family and parent-pair counseling for particular needs and questions.
The child’s language acquisition is determined by cognitive processes. By means of psychological development diagnostics, support offers can be specified and the parents given well-founded information on additional support possibilities.
For our adult patients:
Hearing loss does not affect only the ear, but rather the whole person. Patients are occupied with the painful loss of hearing and experience emotions such as grief, rage or disappointment. Limitations in the quality of life (such as withdrawal from group activities or communication problems with colleagues at work) are often topics raised by patients in our psychological counseling. We see our task to support the patient, to give impulses toward progressive processing of the hearing loss, and to develop with the patients offensive strategies in coping with their own limitations.
If needed, we support patients in finding help where they live (e.g. counseling centers or outpatient psychotherapy).
Implant Centrum Freiburg - ICF
Elsässerstrasse 2n
79110 Freiburg
Telephone: 49 (0)761 - 270 72920 / 72810
Telefax: 49 (0)761 - 270 72780
You can reach us by telephone
- Tuesdays from 8.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.
- Wednesdays from 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
- Thursdays from 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
In emergencies, you can reach us by telephone
- Mondays from 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
- Fridays from 8.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.