Abandono de atendimento psicológico por crianças em um clínica-escola

Abstract

To investigate psychology treatment dropout of children helps the evaluation of the quality of therapy in children´s clinic. The work with children makes the treatment situation more complex, where the therapeutic field will constitute not only of the couple patient-analyst, but of a triad analyst-patient-parents. To assess school-clinics creates possibilities of improvement, being also a form to prevent and enrich this training environment, principally if it has a large number of patients that do not complete the treatment. The objetive of this study was to examine, among children who were attending a psychology clinic, variables that might have influenced the abandonment of their psychotherapeutic processes. In order to execute the study the protocols from the archive of the school-clinic located in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre were analyzed. All children´s cases ages 3 to 12 years old from 1999- 2006 were examined. The protocols contained sociodemographic information, the case evolution, referra