Identifier: TFG:2697
Authors: Muñoz Martínez, Eduardo
Abstract:
Nowadays, minors placed in residential care are an invisible group with a complex history of development, which has conditioned their present. In this context, the aim of this study is to identify the main problems and needs of these children and to prioritize these needs from a nursing perspective. As a second objective, it proposes a Nursing Action Plan addressing to the main need/s. This research employs an exploratory qualitative methodology. The focus group made up of educators from the centre is used as a technique for data collection and thematic content analysis as a tool for analysing data. An intentional sampling is done to select the informants using four inclusion criteria, and a sample of four educators is obtained. The study results show the consequences of developmental psychopathology. The minor’s past, the situation of social difficulty and maladjustment in which he finds himselve, affects the overall situation of the minor, altering the minor’s cognitive, emotional-affective, psychological, behavioural and social systems. The most prevalent problems identified among these minors are drug consumption, inappropriate behaviour, risky sexual behaviour, mental health problems and affective problems. Finally, two lines of action are proposed from the nursing perspective: an individualized affective-sexual intervention and an intervention aimed at improving the psychopharmaceuticals’ treatment adequacy. It is concluded that conflicts and emotional deficiencies underlie most of the problems and that the identified needs are related to the lack of stability, security and the alteration of the process of maturity and balance.
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