Caring for a Child having a Mental Health Problem
Children with mental health problem or children with mental health challenge are the children with learning disability. A mentally retarded child has neurodevelopmental disorders, impaired adaptive and impaired intellectual functioning. A mentally retarded child can develop a lifelong impaired mental development. This paper provides the summary of the interview that I have with a mental health therapist that focus on the method to care for a child having a mental health challenge. The summary of the interview with a healthcare professional is presented in the next section.
Summary of the Interview
I am a professional mental health therapist, and find the work very challenging because of the load of work involved. Assisting children with mental health problem requires a professional specializing in children mental health, who can provide more health care support and understanding for children. The challenging thing about the work is that it requires a lot of patience when carrying out the work because it is very critical to treat the children with care. If any of the children does something I do not like, I have to accept the issue like that because it is very important not to shout at children because yelling at them can aggravate their problems. One of characteristics of my day work is that I develop likeness for my work despite that the work is challenging. Over the years, I have been able to understand the method of dealing with children with mental health problem. (Singer, 2006).
Despite the challenging aspect of the job, I usually plan my daily work ahead before starting the day work. Daily, I wake up at 6:30 A.M. And after taking my birth,...
After taking my regular breakfast, I enter my car and drive off to my office, which takes approximately 15 minutes from my home. I start my work daily at 8 a.m. And close office at 6 p.m. Daily; I receive patients from all walks of life and from different ethnic backgrounds. I spend almost 10 hours in the office except an hour break for lunch. In essence, all the day work is chaotic because of a line of patients that I have to attend to from morning until evening. Sometimes, I work in the night if I have to attend to a difficult patient. (Raina O'Donnell, Schwellnus, et al. 2004).
Several reasons make me to choose this field. First, I like helping children, and the best strategy to assist them is to help children with mental challenge. Right from my youthful age, I usually like to extend my helping hand to children, thus, I choose a field that will make me to be always in touch with children and offer them my professional help. I have more than 10 years of working experience in the profession, and my experience with families of the struggling children reveal that virtually all of them want their children to be like normal children. My other experience with the families is that they put all their hopes on mental health professionals like myself. Thus, when they arrive at my office, I do all my best to assure them that I will do my best possible to assist their children to become a normal children similar to other children. (Michael, Micheal, Annette, et al. 2011).
Despite that I like working with children especially children with mental health problem, I still found some experiences challenging. First, some families will be in a hurry and…
