Child guidance clinic

1. Child guidance clinic PRESENTED BY: Mr. Navjyot Singh Choudhary M.Sc. Nursing 1 st year DEPT. OF PAEDIATRIC NURSING

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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 .

5. OBJECTIVES

6. 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 .

7. 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.

8. The treatment The TREATMENT can be divided broadly as:

9. Treatment of the child himself. Treatment of any physical illness if it is present. Psychotherapy which includes : Suggestion and Persuasion. Hypnosis Re-education Psychoanalysis C. Play therapy and other forms of expressive therapies

10. 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.

11. ROLE OF NURSE The 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