The Roles of Residential Institution for Children and School on the Intervention Psychiatric Problems in Children.

Abstract

The main point of this study was to focus on the roles of residential institution for children and school on the intervention psychiatric problems in children. The objectives of this study were 1) to study the roles and duties of personnels in the residential institution for children and school in solving psychiatric problems for children and youths ; 2) to investigate the factors influenced on the roles and duties of those in the residential institution and school ; 3) to look for the attitude of the personnels in the residential institution and school toward the mental health problems of children and youth ; 4) to find out the attitude of children toward the services of the residential institution and school ; and 5) to look for the model for the cooperation among organization for giving psychiatric services in the communities. The subjects of this study were 8-25 year old adolescents and personnels from the residential institution and school who were divided into 4 groups, 145 children from schools and 123 children from the residential institutions, 122 personnels from schools, and 78 personnels from residential institutions. Samples were randomly selected from Samsenwittayalai, Bangkok, Suranareewittayalai, Nakhon Ratchasima ; Khonkaenwittayalai, Khon Kaen; Yupparajwittayalai, Chiang Mai, Banrajvithee residential institution for girl, Bangkok; Banrajchasima residential institution for boy, Nakhon Ratchasima; North-east residential institution for boy, Khon Kaen and Banchiangmai residential institution for boy, Chiang Mai. Data collections were done by asking subjects to complete 3 questionaires which were for general backgrounds ; roles and duties of the personnels; attitude of the personnels toward the mental health problems of children and youth. Personnels in schools with difference toward the services of those organizations. The results suggested that most of the personnels’ roles and duties were responsible for children in many things such as teaching, behavior shaping, child-rearing, personal history collection, visiting and following up the work. For the personnels in school, most of them resumed the responsibilities for teaching as being a teacher for a classroom. Only few were responsible for guidance. Level of education of personnels correlated significantly with both the roles and duties at the present and the expected role of the personnels in school at the statistical level of .05. Work duration also correlated significantly at the statistical level of .05 with both the present roles and duties and the expected roles of the personnels in the residential institutions. Most of the personnels in both schools and residential institution had good attitudes toward the mental health problems of children and youth. Personnels in schools with different opinions toward the roles of the organization had significantly different attitude toward the mental health problems at the statistical level of .05. And the personnels of the residential institutions with different work duration had significantly different attitude toward the mental health problems at the statistical level of .05. Children in school and residential institutions yielded good attitude toward the services of school and the institutions. Among the different ages of children in both places had significantly different attitude toward the services of schools and residential institutions at the statistical level of .o5. and among children from different schools had significantly different attitude toward the services of the school at the statistical level of .05. As for the children from different residential institutions did not have significantly different attitude toward the services of institutions at the statistical level of .05.