The nurse is reviewing the therapist's documentation in the medical record of an assigned client who has cerebral palsy. The therapist has noted the parents may be experiencing vulnerable child syndrome
Which observation of the family unit best supports this potential diagnosis?
A) The parents regularly attend a support group for parents of special needs children.
B) The child has been diagnosed with pneumonia twice in the past year.
C) The parents report they feel their child requires more therapy than the care team has indicated will be needed.
D) The child is schooled at home with a private tutor.
Ans: C
Vulnerable child syndrome is a clinical state in which the parents' reactions to a serious illness or event in the child's past continue to have long-term psychologically harmful effects on the child and members of the family unit. The parents view the child as being at higher risk for medical, developmental, or behavioral problems. Parents exhibit excessive unwarranted concerns and seek health care for their child very frequently. Requests for additional therapy would be consistent with this syndrome. Attendance at a support group is important and does not indicate any underlying pathology. Pneumonia in a child with this diagnosis is not extremely unusual and does not have an increase in likelihood that the vulnerable child syndrome may be involved. Home schooling does not indicate the presence of vulnerable child syndrome.
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