The good patient: an analysis of the relationship between children and professionals of the PIE school integration program

Abstract

One of the main policies that promote school inclusion in Chile is the School Integration Programs (PIE). These programs arise from a state subsidy model for schools that is delivered based on the identification of special educational needs that have been defined by diagnoses based on the DSM-V manual. This work delves into the relationship between diagnosed children and the professionals who treat them within a school based on the concept of recognition of Axel Honneth. Through qualitative work that included professionals and child users, results were reached such that the relationship is based on a strong ideological recognition where the diagnosis of children becomes the main reference; while children seek to be good patients responding to what professionals require, in a relationship strongly framed by the financing model.