Child guidance clinic

seminar presentation on child guidance clinic its introduction definition concepts treatment of child family attitude and services provided at child guidance clinic area

1. CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC

2. INTRODUCTION The first child guidance clinic was started in Chicago in 1990.They have grown in number through out the world. The first CGC was started I ndia 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.

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 Providing help for children with behavioral problem like pica, bed-wetting, sleep walking, speech defects etc. Providing care and guidance for children with mental retardation Providing care for children with learning difficulties Providing counseling, guidance and information to parents regarding care and upbringing of children.

6. SERVICES PROVIDED BY CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC Managing behavioural 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 TREATMEN 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: Treatment of the child himself1 Family attitudes as a focus of treatment2

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 Play therapy and other forms of expressive therapies

10. Family attitudes as a focus of treatment. Attitude therapy to the parents. Treatment of psychoneurosis or psychosis in parents, if and when necessary.

11. SERVICES PROVIDED AT CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ARE Pediatrician takes care of the physical health of the child. The psychiatrist is the central figure and is helped by others in arriving at a correct diagnosis and formulating the line of treatment. The core of the therapy is psycho therapy in order to restore positive feelings of security in the child. In order to achieve this many methods are employed.