CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC

Ms. Swati
Child health nursing
 INTRODUCTION

Child guidance clinic were started in 1922, as part of

program sponsored by a private organization ‘Common
Wealth fund’s Program’ for the prevention of juvenile
delinquency.
 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.
 CONCEPT OF CHILD GUIDANCE
CLINIC

It is 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.
 OBJECTIVES
• Help for children with behavioral problem like
pica, bed-wetting, sleep walking, speech defects
etc.
• Care and guidance for children with mental
retardation
• Care for children with learning difficulties
• Counseling, guidance and information to parents
regarding care and upbringing of children.
 TEAM MEMBERS
Psychiatrist

Clinical pathologist

Educational psychologist

Psychiatric social worker

Public health nurses

Pediatrician
TEAM MEMBERS CONT…

Speech therapist

Social worker Occupational therapist

Teachers Neurologist
Nurses
SERVICES PROVIDED BYCHILD
GUIDANCE CLINIC
• Individual psycho therapy
• Family and marital therapy
• Behavior and cognitive therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Group therapy
• play therapy
• Counseling
• Suggestions
• Change in the physical environment
 PRINCIPLES OF CHILD GUIDANCE
TREATMENT
• The treatment of the child is carried out not by
one person but by a team of workers
• The child is treated as a whole and the
personality has many aspects, viz., physical,
intellectual, educational, emotional, social and
economic, etc.
 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 and 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.
 ROLE OF NURSE
• Be an exemplary role model
• The child guidance clinic is to prevent children from
the possibilities of becoming neurotics and psychotics
in later life.
• Providing counseling and guidance to parents.
• Providing help for children with behavioral problems
• Children who have mental retardation, learning
disabilities behavioral problems
• Children with emotional & mood disorders
Intellectual deficit, School legal issues and problems
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