A Group Work Of Society Psychology Project Design For The Family Members Of The Sufferer Of Cleft Lip And Palate

Cleft lip and palate, commonly known as "cleft lip", oral and maxillofacial region is the most common congenital malformations.According to statistics,in every800newborns,there is a cleft lip or palate or there is a cleft lip or palate or both of the newborn children. Cleft lip and palate affects not only the facial appearance, mouth, nasal cavity, connected, directly affect the development,often lead to upper respiratory tract infection, complicated by otitis media, result in significantly malnourished children with sucking difficulties, these situations gave children and parents of mentally caused serious trauma. In China, the incidence of cleft lip and palate are generally rural than in urban, baby boy higher than the baby girl, mountains higher than the plain, so can imagine the cleft in general are not very wealthy family. In recent years, this special group to be more and more social concerns, number of charitable organizations or individuals to join the ranks for cleft lip and palate patients and families to provide financial assistance to provide free surgical treatment to help patients’ families, and to mitigate the economic burden. However, we have provided material assistance, at the same time, deformity and disease brings psychological trauma to patients and their parents and other social needs are often overlooked. This article will focus on the psychological needs of cleft lip and palate patients and their parents. Understand the patient’s parents’psychological distress, mental condition and needs of the patient’s parents, the design professional services program, to provide psychosocial support services through the social work profession, the implantation of hope for the patient’s family to help patients family.In this paper, based on the working methods of the social work team-based supplemented by a case-by-case work. Before the event, in-depth communication with patients’parents, make them to accept social workers, at the same time, we should understand their psychological distress in a timely manner to give comfort. To prepare for group activities after, and advocates to actively participate in group work. In the activity, in good faith as members of the service, to guide members open their hearts to talk to the hearts of depressed share with you the pain and joy. Through the activities, to provide psychosocial support for patients and their parents, increasing the patient’s parents peer support, and create aeasy-care treatment environment to help ease the psychological pressure on parents, and guide the parents accept the child, good to explore the child’s strengths. The same time, the participation of hospital staff with the assistance, to provide medical knowledge to patients’ parents, help parents grasp the skills of how to get along with children and how to care for the child.