Abstract

LEVIN, Axel. “Working with the disability certificate”: a study of professional strategies in a mental health hospital for children and teenagers in Argentina. Runa [online]. 2024, vol.45, n.1, pp.227-246.  Epub Feb 01, 2024. ISSN 1851-9628.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/runa.v45i1.12088.

This article is based on an ethnographic investigation carried out during 2020 and 2021 in Carolina Tobar García Hospital, the only public mental health hospital for children and teenagers in Argentina. The aim of this study is to discuss the role of the Disability Certificate in professional practice and statal management of strategies regarding a patient’s problematic situations. Debate surrounding the social stigma of disability, patients rights and the difficulties to access the health system will be discussed. The analysis focuses on how professionals work with patients and their families to offer the Disability Certificate as a strategy, and how this strategy could enhance prognosis of children and teenagers once they leave the hospital to attend other institutions.

Keywords : Disability; Patients rights; Health practice; Mental health; Pediatrics and teenagers mental health.

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