it explains about child guidence clinics and the services done in there in brief. it also explains the role of a social worker in a child guidence clinic
2. A
PRESENTATION
ON THE PRESENT PRACTICE OF
PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORK IN
‘CHILD GUIDANCE CLINICS’
PRESENTED BY
JINS JOSEPH
II MSW
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3. 1. INTRODUCTION
• The child guidance clinic is a community
service for children and families and it is a
part of the health department.
• The services provided here are early
detection, diagnosis and treatment for the
children and families who have developed
behavioral, emotional, social, speech,
language, hearing, communication and
intellectual problems.
• They are provided with intervention services,
which enhance the development of the
children
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4. • Adults are usually not given with these
services and it is availed to those who are
specially referred.
• Services are provided based on the needs of
the client and availability of the specific staff.
• Individual cases are reviewed by the medical
team of staff members for providing better
service
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5. • Child guidance clinics were started in 1922
as part of the programme sponsored by a
private organization namely ‘Common Wealth
fund’s Programme’ for the prevention of
juvenile delinquency.
• The first child guidance clinic was started in
India in 1939 at the TATA institute Mumbai.
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6. • The child guidance clinic in Delhi was started
in 1955 at RAK con and simultaneously in
Madras.
• As per the WHO guidelines there should be a
child guidance clinic available for every 1 lakh
children.
• At present there are about 120 child guidance
clinics in India.
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7. 2. DEFINITION
• According to Stevenson and Smith child
guidance is the
“attempts to organize the resources of the
community on behalf of children, who are in
distress because of unsatisfied inner needs or
are seriously at outs with their environment,
children whose development is thrown out of
balance by difficulties which revile themselves
in unhealthy traits, unacceptable behavior, or
inability to cope with social and scholastic
exploitations”.
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8. • Child guidance clinic are specialized clinics
that deal with children of normal and
abnormal intelligence, who exhibit a range of
behaviors and psychological problems which
are called as maladjustments.
• A child guidance clinic is one of the medical
and social service for the organized and
scientific study and treatment of
maladjustment in children.
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9. 3. CONCEPT OF CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC
• The concept of child guidance clinic emerged
for the holistic development of a child his
physical and physiological functioning and
the environment to which he is exposed,
which is at home and school have to be given
care.
• All this is possible through interaction with
and counseling of the child and his family by
a health care team.
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10. 4. OBJECTIVES OF ‘CGC’
• To provide help for children with behavioral
problem like bed-wetting, sleep walking,
speech defects etc.
• To provide care and guidance for children
with mental retardation
• To provide care for children with learning
difficulties
• To provide counseling, guidance and
information to parents regarding care and
upbringing of children.
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11. • To manage socio-legal issues, intellectual
deficits, developmental problems, adjustment
problems, emotional problems, learning
difficulties and the behavioral problems.
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12. 5. SERVICES PROVIDED BYCHILD GUIDANCE
CLINIC
• The child is treated as a whole and the
personality has many aspects like 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 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, and educational
psychiatric social worker, and playroom
workers.
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13. 6. ROLE OF PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORKERS
• Work with disturbed children and adolescents
with behavior problems, maladjusted
teenagers, withdrawal cases and children
with learning problems
• Make an assessment of the factors
contributing to the problem of the child
• Conduct family therapy and other
interventions
• Liasioning with teachers and educational
psychologists
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14. • Meeting various client groups in a psychiatric
hospital
• Helping the psychiatrists to assess the new
referrals
• Prepare case sheets
• Facilitate treatment process
• Provide counseling to the child and to the
family
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