Predictive value of clinical risk indicators in child development: final results of a study based on psychoanalytic theory

Ano: 2010 | Volume: 13 | Número: 1

Autores: Maria Cristina Machado Kupfer, Alfredo Nestor Jerusalinsky, Leda Mariza Fischer Bernardino, Daniele Wanderley, Paulina Schmidtbauer Barbosa Rocha, Silvia Eugenia Molina, Léa Martins Sales, Regina Stellin, M. Eugênia Pesaro e Rogerio Lerner

Palavras-chave: Risk signals, child development, psychoanalysis, developmental problems

Resumo Inglês:

We present the final results of a study using the IRDI (Clinical Risk Indicators in Child Development). Based on a psychoanalytic approach, 31 risk signs for child development were constructed and applied to 726 children between the ages of 0 and 18 months. One sub-sample was evaluated at the age of three. The results showed a predictive capacity of IRDIs to indicate developmental problems; 15 indicators for the IRDI were also highlighted that predict psychic risk for the constitution of the subject.