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[The emotional development of children]
1Abteilung für Psychiatrie, Neurologie und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters des Virchow-Klinikums, Medizinische Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband Der Arzte Des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany))
|January 1, 1997
Summary
This study reviews emotional development and psychopathology, analyzing non-verbal shame behaviors in children. It highlights the developmental aspects of child psychopathology within the ICD-10 framework.
Area of Science:
- Developmental Psychology
- Child Psychopathology
- Emotional Development
Context:
- Public health services in Germany assess cognitive and motor skills in children.
- Emotional development and situation assessment rely heavily on intuition.
- Lack of standardized methods for evaluating children's emotional states.
Purpose:
- To review developmental psychology and psychopathology of emotions.
- To present data from video analysis of non-verbal emotional behavior, specifically shame.
- To examine the developmental aspect of major child psychopathology using the ICD-10 diagnostic system.
Summary:
- The study reviews emotional development and psychopathology, integrating developmental psychology principles.
- Video analysis data of non-verbal emotional behavior, focusing on shame and associated motor actions, are presented.
- The developmental trajectory of significant child psychopathology is analyzed within a large child psychiatric sample (n=2353) using ICD-10 criteria.
Impact:
- Provides insights into the under-assessed domain of children's emotional development.
- Offers a data-driven approach to understanding emotional expression, particularly shame, in children.
- Contributes to a more comprehensive developmental understanding of child psychopathology for improved diagnostics and interventions.