An alert in the psycho-social-health intervention. A graphic testimony of a real case with autism spectrum disorder

Abstract

The graphic papers of Pablo, 14 years, diagnosed of autism of high functioning, serve as a sign of alert when facing what underlies after the specializing professional intervention.

A few letters, a few drawings, and a few words that show the powerlessness, the suffering and the absence of contextual specific adequacy.

In this work we study, from the analysis of a real case, some excellent aspects in the psychosociosanitary attention, such as:

1. - The need for compilation of pertinent information

2. - The need for elimination of prejudices

3. - The need for respect to the family

4. - The need for specialized formation

5. - The need for search of a shared communicative code

6. - The need for search of strategies of social interaction

7. - The need for empathy

8. - The need for search of contextual specific adequacy

9. - The need for rigorous rules in the physical containment.

10. - The need of a turned over of adapted information

11. - The need to respect the psychoevolutive situation of the patient

12. - The need to give priority to the person on the illness.

A testimony that should serve as a warning for those institutions, administrations and professionals who are thinking of having put all the resources to its scope.

A testimony that should serve to contribute information and new challenges to those other professionals who do not stop their determination of conceptual and/or clinical anxious research.