[Intervention-oriented diagnosis of aggressiveness in children]

In the last eight years we adapted an especially new developed psychodiagnostic and training- and intervention-oriented approach for assessment of social aggressive behaviour of children in concrete situations by Petermann and Petermann (1980), directed to aggressive behaviour techniques of middle-age school-children. Our several theoretical, empirical (experimental) efforts we realized with reference to the following three aims: 1) Psychometrical and education-oriented judgment of relevant aspects of readiness of aggressive behaviour in different social situations and evaluation of aspects of necessity for training- and therapy-interventions (formation of competent social behaviour). 2) Psychometrical and intervention-related evaluation of different styles and types of aggressive social interactions (based on so called "Tyler-matrix") of the child in social situations and 3) Different education-related training-techniques aimed at the reduction of inadequate aggressive behaviour-strategies and the acquisition of competent social behaviour techniques and self-efficacy in the practice of interaction, related to the different styles and types of aggressive interaction of the child. In our assessment and research procedures we examined about 700 children (9-11 years aged) in relation to the different aspects of clinical practice (see the three main points of our aims). The new diagnostic and intervention-oriented approach in our GDR-adaptation and -standardization can be considered as suitable for the psychometric areas as well as for the several types and forms of training and/or psychotherapy for overcoming aggressive behaviour strategies in childhood. We could realize a very good differentiation between several Tyler-matrix-related types of aggressive social interaction pattern in relation to behaviour disturbed and normal pupils as well as for several results in training-related (therapy-orientated) procedures.