Psychosocial adjustment is best achieved where disability doesn’t affect function too much, where the child can join in with more recreational activities, has greater friend support, less use of avoidance coping and more use of problem solving.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Social support helps rehabilitation of burned children and training in such support should ideally be given to a suitable health care worker. The family is under considerable emotional stress, which makes it difficult for them to provide the best support for the child. Social support is valuable, even crucial, during the acute phase at hospitalization, as well as during the long-term rehabilitation of the burned child.
Working out some kind of meaning and some sense of personal worth for the family is part of the process of the long recovery from a burn injury. Recovery that cannot be made in isolation. |