School Reintegration and Perceived Needs: The Perspectives of Child and Adolescent Patients During Psychiatric Hospitali
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School Reintegration and Perceived Needs: The Perspectives of Child and Adolescent Patients During Psychiatric Hospitalization Michèle Preyde1 · Shrenik Parekh2 · Amanda Warne3 · John Heintzman2
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017
Abstract Youth hospitalized with psychiatric illness often experience disruption in their school attendance. Knowledge from the youths’ perspective of concerns for returning to school after hospitalization is very limited. Exploring youths’ concerns for school reintegration may inform transition practices for youth with psychiatric illness. The purpose for this study was to explore youths’ concerns for school reintegration and to report their perceived needs for support before leaving hospital. A questionnaire was developed to capture qualitative perceptions and quantitative self-reports of youths’ concerns for school reintegration. Child and adolescent patients accessing in-patient psychiatric care completed surveys containing open-ended questions about their concerns and service needs at discharge, and self-ratings of their concerns for their studies, friends, other students and emotions. One hundred and sixty-one youth (mean age 15.41, SD 1.4; 75% female; 57% with a primary diagnosis of major depression) reported considerable concerns about anticipated social situations at school, academic standing, feeling overwhelmed with school and great difficulty with managing their emotions. Youth identified a need for ongoing supports from mental health professionals and school personnel, social support from friends and family, and educational assistance or modifications. High rates of intense worries reported about school issues and school reintegration suggest this vulnerable population may benefit from increased attention * Michèle Preyde [email protected] 1
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
2
Grand River Hospital, Kitchener, ON, Canada
3
Wellington Catholic District School Board, Guelph, ON, Canada
to transition planning. Two important developmental domains, social development and educational outcomes, appear at-risk and this risk highlights the need for a greater emphasis on continuity of care. Keywords School re-integration · Social isolation · School-related difficulties · Needs assessment · Social development
Introduction It has been estimated that approximately 20% of youth experience a mental health disorder with 14% in the clinic range (Angold & Costello, 1995; Waddell, Offord, Shepherd, Hua, & McEwan, 2002). Moreover, recent reports indicated “rapid burgeoning” of visits to mental-health emergency departments and significant increases in psychiatric hospitalizations (Chun, Mace, & Katz, 2016; Gandhi et al., 2016) by American and Canadian youth. Children and adolescents are referred to in-patient psychiatric care for crisis intervention and stabilization for a number of mental health disorders. Hospitalization can disrupt educational attainment (Breslau, Lane, Sampson, & Kessler, 2008; Shaw & McCabe, 2008) and mental health symptoms can disrupt lea
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