Objective. The study is meant to assess the possibilities of using the methodology “Diagnosis ...” in clinical psychology and psychiatry, as well as to outline the ways to adapt it to the peculiarities of clinical-psychological and psychiatric examination for children at early and preschool age.
Method. The study involved children of early and preschool age with verified psychiatric diagnoses. The data were obtained through observation of communication, objective activity and play of children during examination with the “Diagnostics ...” method and during psychiatric and clinical-psychological examination. The article presents the qualitative results of the study and their analysis.
Results. It was shown that the technique is effective in psychiatric and clinical-psychological examination of children and allows to obtain data that are highly informative and novel. This applies to the parameters of child’s development: initiative and sensitivity in communication, purposefulness of activities, the desire to act according to the model, orientation to the assessment by an adult, speech accompaniment of activities, duration of game, variety of playing actions, imagination, etc. The study also showed that the technique proves to be effective beyond an early age for children, suffering from mental disorders.
Conclusion. The results obtained allow us to consider the technique as an adequate tool not only for psychological and pedagogical, but also for clinical-psychological and medical research. At the same time, it is necessary to conduct additional interdisciplinary research in order to adapt this technique for the purposes of scientific and practical application in clinical psychology and psychiatry.
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Keywords: early age; preschool age; children with mental health disorders; communication; objective activity; game
Available Online 24.08.2022
Trushkina, S.V., Skoblo, G.V. (2022). Application of the methodology “Diagnostics of the mental development of children from birth to three years” in clinical psychology and psychiatry. Natsional’nyy psikhologocheskiy zhurnal (National psychological journal), 3 (47), 97–107. doi: 10.11621/npj.2022.0312