Peculiarities of the evaluation in Infanto-juvenile Psychiatry

Abstract

To be able to manage to formulate a clinical judgment, we will have to cross a way, establish a diagnostic procedure, and elaborate the information that comes to us, arrange it and make concrete it in a "dossier" that contains all the documents, studies and reports that refer to the child and your problems. The aims of the psychopathologycal child diagnosis are different. If it was necessary to summarize them in the alone one and in a clear way it would be "to know to intervene " or what is the same thing, to evaluate to treat. All the rest are secondary to first this one. The diagnostic process must have a beginning, a few intermediate steps and an end. All this in a sequential way and having in count a series of peculiarities and differential characteristics of the minor. Only we will understand the problems and difficulties that the child presents if we do not forget the change able, dynamical and evolutionary sense of the child personality.