Child guidance

clinic
PRESENTED BY:
Mr. Charan Singh Poonia
RN, MSN, Ph. D.
Professor/Principal
Maharishi Dayanand Institute of
Nursing, Hisar, Haryana
INTRODUCTION
• Child guidance clinic was started in 1909 in chicago to
deal with problems of juvenile delinquency.
• 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
• Providing help for children with behavioral problem like pica, bed-
wetting, sleep walking, speech defects etc.
1

• Providing care and guidance for children with mental retardation

2

• Providing care for children with learning difficulties

3

• Providing counseling, guidance and information to parents regarding

care and upbringing of children.
4
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

1 himself

• Family attitudes as a
2 focus of treatment
Treatment of the child himself.

A. Treatment of any physical illness if it is present.

B. Psychotherapy which includes :
Suggestion and Persuasion.
Hypnosis
Re-education
Psychoanalysis
C. 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 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