The problems and challenges facing families with children who need specialised healthcare services because of chronic medical and mental conditions need critical medical healthcare reforms to address. The strategic elements to focus on include implementing new social reforms, integrating new developments in medicine, integrating the services of new child oriented psychologists, and linking paediatrics psychology with child psychology.
Socio-political reforms have been recommended to integrate prevention and intervention strategies into the healthcare system and promote the healthcare service delivery to the children with disabilities. The services are directed at providing support for children with mental health disorders aged between 9 and 17 years who suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI) to prevent the risks of using school based prevention programs. The right model involves teachers, parents, and healthcare specialists as has been recommended by the U.S department of Health and Human services. The recommendations include the de-stigmatization of children suffering from mental health problems, delivering the best quality treatments, facilitating entry into treatment, and tailoring treatment based on the age, gender, race, and culture of the child based on information retrieved from a scientific database. Here, the education sector operates by removing the barriers that hinder the process of providing support for children with disabilities or severe impairments and other special needs.
Here, the rapid advances in medicine, psychology, and education are linked to the processes of promoting the health of children with special needs to facilitate good health behavior. The rationale is that rapid advances in psychopharmacology are important in enabling those responsible for educating and caring for the children with special needs to formulate appropriate interventional strategies to carter for their needs. In addition, it assists the care takers to conduct appropriate research to discover the problems that hinder the children with disabilities to perform normal day to day activities and formulate appropriate solutions. Here, the rapid changes and adoption of positive psychology underlie the creative and positive responses in implementing the required reforms in the provision of healthcare services.
New contributions using specialised intervention and prevention strategies from the school of psychology are important elements to consider in implementing the necessary reforms required for caring for the children with special needs. Here, psychologists can collaborate with different professionals to formulate new and better by working with interdisciplinary teams to develop better interventional and prevention programs to address the healthcare needs of the children. Paediatric psychologists work by using advanced medical psychological interventions programs through interdisciplinary collaborations in caring for the children with chronic problems.
The lessons learnt include understanding the role of paediatric psychologists, teachers, and parents in formulating new interventional and prevention strategies in addressing the problems faced by children with special needs. In addition, social political reforms and the role of schools in supporting the implementation of healthcare interventional programs are critically important processes.
However, I was surprised to learn that paediatric professionals and teachers should try to learn child psychology to improve the instructional outcomes of children, promote cognitive and abilities and social development of the children, make positive contributions to the school reintegration initiatives for the children by fostering new and productive collaborations.
In conclusion, the need for the healthcare personnel and the school system to collaborate and provide appropriate medical healthcare services to the children with special needs is critically important. The roles and responsibilities of paediatric psychologists need to be integrated into the school healthcare system to provide the right interventional strategies for the children in need.