Child's behavior |
Aggressive, violent, and pathological. They claim the child does not meet the standards of the school. |
They believe it is an organic disorder and diagnosed him as having behavioral disorder and depression. |
They think the boy is agitated and "a handful". The mother denies her son talks about death at home. |
They believe the child's behavior is a result of the social context of neglect, to which the child is exposed. |
"He shows no guilt, has no feelings"; "He seems to be a strategist, he is cruel." |
It is not possible to make diagnoses of behavioral disorders or psychosis. |
Participation of the parents in the child's life |
They blame the parents for emotional neglect and for failing to cooperate with the school in the education of the child. |
They believe the parents are not emotionally capable of caring for the child due to conflicts faced during childhood and adolescence. |
They claim to participate in the school life of the child. They show notes sent to school asking about the child's daily behavior. |
They believe that the family wishes to care for their child and raise him, but has difficulty in caring. |
Attitude regarding the child's behavior |
They scold the child when he speaks of death, punish him, and keep him labeled as problematic and violent. |
They understand the case as an organic disease, and as they cannot maintain the child in working groups, they choose to medicate him. |
The mother states on notes sent to the school that she punishes the child with "time outs" and that she talks with him when he misbehaves. The father does not participate in the child's education. |
They believe that the institutions can support the family in establishing a network of psychosocial protection to the child. |
Changes are needed regarding the pedagogical approach to the child. |
About the fact that the child speaks to himself and isolates himself from others |
They believe this is a psychiatric disorder. The child says that he talks to an animal. |
They perceive it as a sign of psychiatric disorder. |
Mother denies that the child talks to himself. |
They believe this is a normal attitude for children at this age range; schizophrenia was discarded. This is an extroverted child that shows increasing interest in communicating with others. |
Problems experienced |
They claim they have no support from the HC, and feel isolated as an institution. They have difficulty dealing pedagogically with the theme of death brought in by the child. |
Difficulty dealing with the child in group work. Applied therapeutic actions have failed; the child predominantly receives drug therapy. |
She reports she has no patience or knowledge to educate him. "I've been very nervous, I have no patience, I just start screaming." She reports that she is under treatment for depression. |
How to get the institutions involved to promote the construction of a protection network for the child? How to help the family to accept the suffering of their child? |