Psychological Optimization for Adolescents with Physical Motor Deficiency—A Model of Intervention

Marinela Rusu

doi:10.4236/psych.2020.111003

Abstract

This article aims to present a model of psycho-educational intervention which helps adolescents with physical, motor deficiencies (PMD)1 to integrate more effectively into the school and social group. It also analyses the results of a psychological experiment realized with adolescents with PMD, using role playing method, body techniques and cathartic methods (drawing) aiming for optimization, personal development and improvement of resilience and rehabilitation of these teens. The research approach is integrated in the general trend of positive psychology, which focuses on cultivating individual skills and inclinations. It is also proposed a new method of working with teenagers with PMD: the intervention through art in school, which has proved to be beneficial in overcoming states of stress, nervousness or frustration. The experimental analysis is connected with a comprehensive project on teenagers with PMD, conducted by the Rusu, M. in previous years2.

Highlights

IntroductionStates that “any organic inferiority influences the psychical integrity, affects activity and thinking, manifests itself in dreams, expresses in choosing a profession, in artistic tendencies and aptitudes.”
The model presented above is a complex way of intervention, carried out in support of the personal development of adolescents with PMD
The intervention through art and the prolonged discussions that took place during the role-playing sessions provided a better knowledge of the psychological problems and a better social integration of adolescents with PMD was achieved

Summary

Introduction

States that “any organic inferiority influences the psychical integrity, affects activity and thinking, manifests itself in dreams, expresses in choosing a profession, in artistic tendencies and aptitudes.” In a research conducted some years ago, the results were significant from this perspective: “As an indicator of psychic fragility, expression of insufficient selfesteem, emotivity (Z = −4.303, p < 0.0001) was recorded as significantly greater in the group of teenagers with PMD than the group of teenagers without deficiency and becomes expressive in the overall picture of their personality. The increased sensitivity, the affective background fragmented by the many psychic traumas, failures, correlated with the rejection attitude of the others, directly influenced the state of emotivity, emphasizing the relational handicap of these teenagers, generating a low self-confidence, associated with devaluing selfbeliefs” The increased sensitivity, the affective background fragmented by the many psychic traumas, failures, correlated with the rejection attitude of the others, directly influenced the state of emotivity, emphasizing the relational handicap of these teenagers, generating a low self-confidence, associated with devaluing selfbeliefs” (Rusu, 2019a: pp. 62-63)

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