A 9-year-old girl was put into the ICU after her skull was broken by a teacher, how to repair her child's psychology and return to school smoothly?

Recently, a 9-year-old girl in Changsha was smashed by a male teacher with a triangular ruler and went directly to the ICU. Police update: Suspected of intentional injury, the teacher has been criminally detained.

It is clear that this teacher is no longer a problem of violent corporal punishment, but has caused serious physical harm to the student.

For young students, this major injury may cause a lot of psychological trauma, not only in the process of being injured by teachers, but also in the process of being treated in the hospital, if it is not handled properly, it will also bring a lot of psychological trauma, so I hope that medical staff and families must pay attention to avoid long-term psychological damage to children.

At present, the teacher's injury may have caused acute stress disorder (ASD) in the girl, and if it is not treated in a timely and effective manner, it may evolve into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after one month, which is manifested as: traumatic re-experience, increased alertness, avoidance and numbness.

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How to provide psychological counseling to girls so that girls can restore their mental and physical health?

First of all, the hospital needs to invite a psychiatrist for consultation, note that it is not a psychologist, the psychiatrist should look at the degree of acute stress disorder of the girl, and whether she needs the assistance of sedative drugs. Psychiatric medications can help a girl get a good night's sleep and avoid her sudden awakening in a dream.

Second, psychologically, because family members may not be able to enter the ICU ward, this requires medical staff, including doctors and nurses, to give the girl very close attention and care, so that the girl knows that her life is safe and that the teacher has been punished. In this way, the girl will feel much better psychologically.

Although her parents are outside the ward, the medical staff also have to convey a message: parents and family have always been concerned about her condition outside, and her family loves her, so that the girl feels cared for by her family and shapes a sense of psychological security. If conditions permit, it is better for parents to wear protective clothing and be present with their children.

Third, when the girl is transferred to the general ward, the companionship and guidance of the parents is very critical.

If a girl is physically punished by a teacher because of a grade problem, the girl may have a certain learning disability or have developed certain psychological problems, which affect learning. Combined with our precision psychopsychological clinical practice experience, this often means that there are certain problems in the girl's family relationship and parent-child relationship.

Then parents should take advantage of this opportunity to improve and repair the parent-child relationship and eliminate the problem of children's learning disabilities. The same applies to students and parents who have suffered similar experiences.

In addition to accompanying children, parents should use the "three steps of benign communication": empathy, listening, and active guidance. Parents should empathize with their children, understand the pain and sadness in their hearts, and then listen to their children's hearts so that children can release their inner negative emotions. If the child is willing, he can let the child tell the story of the incident, and then actively guide the child to know that the teacher has been detained, and will definitely be sentenced and receive the punishment he deserves.

Let the child understand that the teacher's corporal punishment hurts her, the problem is not the child himself, but the teacher's problem, and the teacher may have certain mental and psychological problems, such as because of a lot of trauma and anger accumulated in his home education, he may release these anger together. He may also have problems such as personality disorders.

Parents of children

If the child has what kind of psychological appeal, parents should listen carefully, and then actively reflect on the existing problems: such as whether the parent-child relationship is close? Do you have the knowledge of accurate spiritual psychology that is efficient and scientific? Does the child have a learning disability? Parents should find the deep-seated reasons to prevent their children's psychological problems from worsening after returning to school.

If the child confides that her parents have caused her a lot of psychological trauma, the parents must sincerely apologize to the child and promise to reflect and change.

When the girl's condition improves and she may not be willing to go to the original school, then parents should respect the child's wishes and do a good job of transferring.

For the majority of parents, I once again emphasize that parents should master accurate spiritual psychology knowledge, in case the child is harmed, you can guide the child from "victim thinking" to "survivor thinking", do not always feel that they are victims, and carry the label of "victim" on the body for a lifetime, which has too much negative impact on the child.

The right thing to do is to shift to a "survivor mindset" where we survive a major injury or setback, while also addressing learning disabilities, getting academic performance up, turning bad things into good things, and then joining new classes and schools with a positive mindset to start a new life.