Prácticas pedagógicas y ocupacionales de los docentes y terapeutas del “Instituto Psiquiátrico Sagrado Corazón”

Abstract

The “Sagrado Corazón” Institute is a health institution that takes in adolescents with behavioural disorders. For the last three years it has maintained an agreement with the hospital classrooms model, providing continuity to the educational process of the adolescent inmates. The present study allows the identification of pedagogical and occupational actions during the period of internment of adolescent girls in the institute. Based on the quantitative and qualitative methodology, techniques such as direct non-participant observation were used, using the field diary as instruments; surveys with semi-structured questions were also conducted, addressed to five professionals of hospital classrooms and four occupational therapy professionals, allowing the pedagogical and occupational experience applied to the adolescents to be evidenced. The results show a flexible model used by the hospital classrooms' teachers, which at the same time promotes continuity through educational readjustments, providing knowledge of the higher basic level and high school in a group and individual manner. Occupational therapy, on the other hand, fulfills the necessary actions to favor the adaptation of adolescent girls by promoting occupation with good health habits, promotes the adequate use of free time, improving social participation in their different contexts. Pedagogical and occupational practices promote the educational process through specific programmes designed for the hospital environment, favouring continuity and subsequent educational inclusion.