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 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.

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

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.