Abstract
to identify the knowledge of professionals of mental health services and social work on Behavior Disorders (BD) in childhood and adolescence, and to analyze their actions in care for children and adolescents with such disorders. a qualitative, descriptive-exploratory study with 13 professionals from two mental health services and two tutorial councils. The data were collected in interviews and submitted to thematic content analysis. three categories emerged from the interviews: "Knowledge about behavior disorders", which defines BD as deviations from normality and lack of limits. "Integrated and group care", which explains the integrated, multidisciplinary and group actions. "Specialized and legal care", which explains the actions through specialized, medical and judicial care. the results point out weaknesses and knowledge gaps of professionals, causing potential harm in the programming of effective actions, such as identification, referral and therapeutic planning.
Highlights
Behavioral Disorders (BD) in childhood are characterized by two main subtypes: Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and BD
This study aims to identify the knowledge of professionals of mental health services and social work on BD in childhood and adolescence, and to analyze their actions in care for children and adolescents with such disorders
[...] the child or adolescent who has this disorder is seen as impolite, and I think they are referred or look for this service as one of the last or last but one of the alternatives, when they have exhausted all the other jobs they end up looking for mental health institutions [...] is that they leave as a last resort, lack of referral, lack of a professional that is detecting whether it is a mental health issue or not, right? (H7)
Summary
Behavioral Disorders (BD) in childhood are characterized by two main subtypes: Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and BD. ODD is characterized by a repetitive and persistent pattern of challenging behavior, such as tantrums and confrontation with authority figures. In Conduct Disorder, the symptoms described in ODD are present, but there is added to them persistent and frequent violation of other people’s fundamental rights and social norms such as severe physical assault, theft and property damage[1]. In this way, BP diagnostic characteristics are closely related to violence. While on the one hand, environmental stressors in periods of greater vulnerability, such as maltreatment and growing in violent communities and schools, significantly increase chances of developing BP[2,3,4], on the other hand, once BP is started, there is a greater chance of developing mood, anxiety, and chemical dependency disorders, as well as dropping out of school before high school, engaging in violence and crime, and failing to enter the market work in adult life[5,6,7,8,9]
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