THERAPEUTIC EDUCATIONAL CENTERS. CARE FOR STUDENTS WITH SERIOUS MENTAL DISORDERS

The attention, that from the educational scope receive the students with Serious Mental Disorder, is framed within the Hospitals of Day-Therapeutic Educational Centers that the Madrid Regional Authority offers for that purpose. Therapeutic Educational Centers become a model centre that provides integrated and intensive care. Students with severe mental disorders receive educational and therapeutic attention. The Therapeutic Educational Centers give an educational response to a moment of seriousness that forces the student with severe mental disorder to remain hospitalised. It is a temporary and exceptional resource that responds to extraordinary characteristics. It is not a definitive resource. The sick student with mental disorder should return to their educational centre sooner or later, and that is why schools should be prepared, to give educational attention to sick students with a mental disorder in an inclusive way, staying and participating in their centre educational actively.