The Hospitalized Child's First Separation From Home: A Study of the Adjustment Problems of Five Children, Two to Five Years Old, Admitted for Surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, 1952-1959
Abstract
Background of Study. It is generally recognised that the present day practive of total medical care is predicated on the interrelationship of social, emotional and pathological forces in the care of the sick. But with the present day division between professional teaching, nursing child guidance work, child analysis and pediatrics, there is little or no opportunity for the trained worker in one of these fields to function, even in the role of observer in one of the other services for children. Nursery workers, school teachers and child analysts see nothing of the children under their care when they are ill, while pediatricians and nurses lose contact with their young patients when they are healthy. It is only the mother who has the opportunity to see her children in health, illness, convalescence, deviating from the norm bodily and mentally and returning to it. On the other hand, during severe bodily illness, the mother’s own emotional upset and her inevitable concentration on bodily matters act as distorting factors and leave little room for objective observations of the child’s psychological reaction.
Subject Area
Social research|Social work|Psychology
Recommended Citation
Nogueras, Carmen M. Balasquide, "The Hospitalized Child's First Separation From Home: A Study of the Adjustment Problems of Five Children, Two to Five Years Old, Admitted for Surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, 1952-1959" (1960). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097139.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097139
