The document summarizes the objectives and functions of a child guidance clinic. It discusses that child guidance clinics were established to deal with problems of juvenile delinquency and maladjustment in children. The objectives of such clinics are to provide help for children with behavioral, learning, and mental health issues through counseling, therapy, and guidance to parents. The clinics employ a multidisciplinary team including psychologists, social workers, nurses and doctors to treat the whole child and involve family-focused treatment.

1. CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC

2. INTRODUTION
 Child guidance clinic was started in 1909, in Chicago
 It started to deal with problems of juvenile delinquency
 In India, the first child guidance clinic was started in
1939 at the TATA institute, Mumbai

3. DEFINITION
 “Child guidance clinic are specialized of normal and
abnormal intelligence exhibiting a range of behaviours
and psychological problems which are summed up as
maladjustments”
 A child guidance clinic is one of the medico-social
amenities for the organised and scientific study and
treatment for maladjustments in children

4. OBJECTIVES
 Providing help for children with behavioural problems
like pica, bed-wetting, sleeping walking, speech defects
etc
 Providing care and guidance for children with mental
retardation
 Providing care for children with learning difficulties
 Providing counselling, guidance and information to
parents regarding care and upbringing of children

5.  Providing help for children with behavioural problems
include :
- interviewing and interacting with child and parents
- Give appropriate advice and counselling to both child and
parents
- Behaviour modification therapy

6.  Providing care and guidance for children with
mental retardation including :
- Offering counselling to parents about the exact nature of
mental sub normality in their child
- Providing supportive medical and rehabilitative services
- Advice regarding placement in appropriates schools /
vocational training centres
- Forming peer support groups

8.  Providing care for children with learning difficulty :
- Patient identification of cause and type of learning
difficulty in the child
- Complete physical developmental assessment
- Counselling of the parent and referring the children to
special schools for training education when needed

10. PRINCIPLES OF CHILD GUIDANCE
TREATMENT
 The treatment of the child is carried out not by one
person but by a team of members
 Team members of child guidance clinic :
- Psychiatrist,
- Clinical psychologist
- Educational psychologist
- Psychiatric social workers
- Community health nurses
- Speech therapist
- Neurologist
- Paediatrician

11.  The child as treated as whole and the personality has
many aspects, i. e. physical, emotional, intellectual,
educational, social and economic etc. each of these
aspects is studied by the respective staff members who
has specialized in that particular field

12. TREATMENT
The treatment can be divided broadly as :
1. Treatment of the child himself
2. Family attitudes as a focus of treatment

13. 1. Treatment of the child himself :
a. Treatment of any physical illness if it is present
b. Psychotherapy which includes:
- suggestion and persuation
- hypnosis
- re-education
- psycho-analysis

14. c. Play therapy and other forms of expressive therapies
d. Change of environment as treatment :
- Foster home placement
- Institutional placement
- School’s part in changing the child’s behaviour

15. 2. 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
Activities :
- Good follow up
- Continuous monitoring
- Counselling
- Need based assistance
- Help from care takers, teachers and parents

16. ROLE OF NURSE
 Nurse plays an important role in the child guidance
clinic
 The nurse can help prevent by identifying risk cases in
the community
 Educating the public
 Not only educating but also undertaking research studies
herself
 Provide holistic nursing care
 Be a exemplary role model
 Helps to establish good child – parent bond, as well as
good teacher – parent child bond by guiding them

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