Do I go back to school after the Day Hospital?

Abstract

Since the year 2000, the teacher is a member of the multidisciplinary team of the day-hospital for adolescents with psychiatric disorders. He adapts his work to the personal characteristicsof his pupils and his objective in the hospital is to ease the continuity of the pupils school formation and mantaining their cognitive capacities as well as the emotional and social ones.

The aim of this study, based on the data collected during two years by 15 teachers working in different hospitals in Catalonia, is to analyse how the reincorporation of the young people to the learning process takes place since the moment they leave the hospital.

We can see that the quantity of the pupils going back to the ordinary school, helped with an special attention, has increased (from 9% to 27%) We also see that from the 26% of pupils who did not go to school, only 5% of them has no occupation when leaving the hospital.

It is aimed that the schools create their own resources for this kind of pupils and it is also needed that the administration creates special working programs for young people over 16.