A Family Emergency Shelter (FES) is a welfare facility taking care of children who have to be raised outside the family due to dangers to their health or life. When a child lands in an FES it has numerous neurobehavioral disorders. The most common develop as a result of living in a dysfunctional, sensory deprived environment. While working with a mistreated child, nursing – pedagogical diagnosis is indispensible. In practice, however, if a child does not have visible signs of mental or physical disabilities, the aspect of multidimensional diagnosis is omitted. As a result, the children are expected to behave as if they were perfectly healthy and well-adjusted individuals. Such an approach, which has been utilized by professionals and guardians towards children, might result in numerous tragic situations in the future. In this presentation we will outline diagnostic methods and techniques which may be helpful to nurses and people who run FESs in recognizing children’s dysfunctions. They have been worked out in FES at Zagórnik.

Faculty of Health Sciences Jagiellonian University Medical College Kraków

Martin, Slovensko, 2011

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