Child guidance clinic

PRESENTED BY:

Mr. Navjyot Singh Choudhary

M.Sc. Nursing 1st year

DEPT. OF PAEDIATRIC NURSING

INTRODUCTION

• Child guidance clinic were started in 1922, as part of programme sponsored by a private organization ‘Common Wealth fund’s Programme’ for the prevention of juvenile delinquency.

• The first CGC was started in India in 1939 at the TATA institute Mumbai. The CGC in Delhi was started in 1955 at RAK con, simultaneously with madras.

DEFINITION

• Child guidance clinic are specialized clinics that deal with children of normal and abnormal intelligence, exhibiting a range of behaviors and psychological problems which are summed up as maladjustments.

• A child guidance clinic is one of the medico-social amenities for the organized and scientific study and treatment of maladjustment in children.

CONCEPT OF CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC

• For the all-round development of a child the child’s

physical and physiological functioning and the

environment to which he is exposed at home and

school, should be taken care off. All this is possible

through interaction with and counseling of the child

and his family by a health care team.

OBJECTIVES

1• Providing help for children with behavioral problem like

pica, bed-wetting, sleep walking, speech defects etc.

2• Providing care and guidance for children with mental

retardation

3• Providing care for children with learning difficulties

4• Providing counseling, guidance and information to

parents regarding care and upbringing of children.

SERVICES PROVIDED BY CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC

Managing behavioral problem

Managing learning difficulties

Managing emotional problems

Managing adjustment problems

Managing developmental problems

Managing intellectual deficits

Managing socio-legal issues.

PRINCIPLES OF CHILD GUIDANCE TREATMENT

The treatment of the child is carried out not by one person but by a team of workers. The team of staff members is constituted of a psychiatrist, a pediatrician, a PHN, and educational psychiatric social worker, and playroom workers.

The child is treated as a whole and the personality has many aspects, viz., physical, intellectual, educational, emotional, social and economic, etc. each of these aspects is studied by the respective staff member who has specialized in that particular field.

The treatment • The TREATMENT can be divided broadly as:

• Treatment of the child himself1• Family attitudes as a focus of treatment

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Treatment of the child himself.

A. Treatment of any physical illness if it is present.B. Psychotherapy which includes :Suggestion and Persuasion.HypnosisRe-educationPsychoanalysisC. Play therapy and other forms of expressive therapies

Family attitudes as a focus of treatment.

A). Attitude therapy to the parents.

B). Treatment of psychoneurosis or psychosis in parents, if and when necessary.

ROLE OF NURSEThe nurse can help prevent by identifying risk cases in the

community.

Educating the public

Not only encouraging but also undertaking research studies herself

Provide holistic nursing care

Lobby for child rights

Nurse plays an important role in the child guidance clinic

Help establish good child parent bond as well as good teacher parent child bond by guiding them

Be an exemplary role model