Question:
We would like knowing something about the traumas of the hospitalized child. Thank you...
Answer:
The illnesses, accidents or general disorders of health, are something frequent in the life of the child and of the adolescent. The child, who by his illness has to be hospitalized, is in an environment that normally him is not familiar, it is a strange environment that sometimes does that the child experiences certain emotional stress.
The showiest changes are the environment, the change of norms and schedules, the new persons with different relations, alienation of his friends and of the school, new experiences (painful someone). The children younger than 6 years turn out to be more affected.
Surely the diagnosis, the duration of the hospitalization, the relations with the parents and the preparation of the hospital (presence of school classrooms) for his revenue will determine very much his answers.
The function of the parents is that of giving fortitude, support and closeness to the child, this generates safety and it is the most important thing. It is necessary to be careful with an excessive dependency to unnecessary.
The presence of a school classroom also supports him in a well-known role and him his safety increases.
The compensation of the family, with the school schedule of the classroom and the medical care this is what will represent a better adequacy of the child to the hospitable revenue and will place him in a more well-known, less aggressive environment and with less later psychological alterations.
It is important that it does not break with his foreign relations, by it the visit of the friends must be stimulated and in certain form it would be suitable that his habitual teacher will control his duties in the school classroom of the hospital.
Cordial greetings
