Children hospitalized with burns: Their emotional reactions and those of their families [Reacciones emocionales de los niños hospitalizados con quemaduras, así como de sus familiares]

Persons who undergo accidental burning suffer severe traumatic effects, all the more so when these victims are children. This article deals with the psychological and psychoanalytic task of accompanying such persons at the Burned Patients Unit at the Guadalajara Civil Hospital, in Mexico. The theoretical and methodological aspects upon which the intervention is based is then discussed, as well as the importance of the transferential relationship, play activities, the free expression of affects and the teamwork involved in reducing the traumatic impact of the accident