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Parenting children with mental disorders and intellectual disabilities at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in Croatia

A study of personal files of children and adolescents hospitalized at the Royal Institute for the Mentally Ill in Stenjevac, now the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče in Zagreb, dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, showed that the latter were often victims of verbal and physical abuse by their parents. The professional approach in their treatment during their stay in the psychiatric hospital was also inappropriate and inadequate. The lack of understanding of the physical and emotional difficulties of the researched population by the experts also resulted from insufficient research on this issue within medicine, psychology and pedagogy. Low education or uneducated status of parents whose parenting practices are critically analyzed in the presentation, contributed to a misunderstanding of the needs and non-acceptance of their children’s behavior. In addition, mostly a cold emotionally parental approach to children with mental disorders and intellectual disabilities was partly due to the fact that this population was not able to actively participate in work on farms, while the agriculture was the main source of livelihood of the then rural family. On the one hand, due to risky and socially unacceptable behaviors, and on the other hand, due to weak social functionalism, the parents of the latter had a need for their care in a psychiatric hospital.

Vrapče, parenting, childhood history, mental disorders, intellectual disabilities

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