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6° 6éme Congresso Congrès Européen Europeo de di Psicopatologia Psychopathologie dell’Infanzia de l’Enfance e et dell’Adolescenza
de l’Adolescence
Nuove Nouvelles normalità normalités Nuove Nouvelles patologie pathologies Nuove pratiche Nouvelles pratiques
THURSDAY, May 5 POSTER SESSIONS
Poster session 3 Development - Development and language in
migrant's families
15 - MIGRANT CHILD OR CHILD WITH DISABILITY?
A ONE YEAR STUDY IN A POPULATION OF ITALIAN AND FOREIGN CHILDREN: WHO IS
REQUESTING CHILD NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVENTIONS AND FOR WHICH PROBLEMS?
P. Meucci, M. Leonardi, D. Pipari
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milano, Università Cattolica, Milano
Based on several international studies migrants
are considered an at-risk population requiring
particular public health awareness.
In Italy migrants are increasing, especially in
Milan. What happens when these children have
problems at school or in other contexts? Can
we classify these problems as medical or social?
Which is the Service and the network that
can capture these problems?
The aim of this article is to analyze the paths
and the actors involved that suggest or require a
Neuropsychological intervention for a migrant
child or adolescent.
To better understand what kind of problems
foreign children have, it is important to consider
who reports them to the Child Neuropsychiatry
Service and the justification for the request.
The study considered children and adolescents
(aged 0 to17) coming to Milan’s Child
Neuropsychiatry Service - Area 1, from August
1st 2008 to the July 31st 2009. Data were collected
through forms (Patient Signal Forms).
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These forms were filled out by neuropsychiatrists
in contact with the Services or the person
who required a neuropsychological examination
for the child.
In total, 136 children’s Patients Signal Forms
were analyzed (50 on foreigners children). Only
8% of the foreign families addressed to the Child
Neuropsychiatry Service autonomously.
Others requests were suggested by school.,
by health services or social services. This variety
of actors complicates the case management
for the Child Neuropsychiatry Service and the
signals are often given for a neuropsycological
assessment.
This research shows how school is also an
important actor who identifies discomfort of
the foreign children. However not every problem
is a neuropsychiatrist disorder, in particular
when there is also a social or an educational
problem due to a difficult inclusion process in a
new socio-cultural context. For these reasons,
we have to think a Case manager for migrants’
health and/or social problems.