Psychopathology and Child Development - SCHOPLER ERIC

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Résumé :
The First International Leo Kanner Colloquium on Child Development, Devia? tions, and Treatment explores relationships between experimental research, normal development, and interventions, with early infantile autism as a reference model of relatively unambiguous abnormal development. Sponsored by the Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Com? munications handicapped CHildren (TEACCH) Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the colloquium tackled the challenge of facilitat? ing communications among scientists of different disciplines working in a spe? cialized area. The meeting proved successful in generating an interplay and information exchange among scientists of diverse academic and professional orientation, who, if not completely able to agree on common factors, did nevertheless achieve awareness and clarification of their differences. The TEACCH conference and this volume have implications for all research efforts, within and outside the domain of mental health. This is particularly so at a time of limited dollar resources for research support. The present and foresee? able future represent such a time-one when communication among fields, resource competition between basic and applied research, biomedical versus psychosocial research, and the question of research utilization assume a new commanding significance. Thus the question of accountability for research has come to the fore.

Sommaire:
Historical Perspective on Developmental Deviations.- I Biological: Normal Development and Deviations.- 1. Neurobiological Mechanisms of Adaptation in Relation to Models of Psychobiological Development.- 2. Effects of Environment on Brain and Behavior in Animals.- 3. Some Suggestions for Reclassification of Ontogenetically Relevant Early Psychomotor Behavior.- 4. Development in Complex Perceptual Activities.- 5. The Nature of the Neuropsychological Disability in Autistic Children.- 6. The Modulation of Sensory Input and Motor Output in Autistic Children.- Discussion of Biological Section.- II Developmental: Development of Social Behavior and Deviations.- 7. The Bases of Language Acquisition: Some Questions.- 8. Cognitive Development and Psychopathology: Observations on Egocentrism and Ego Defense.- 9. The Socialization of the Individual.- 10. Peer Interaction and the Behavioral Development of the Individual Child.- 11. Socializing the Severely Disturbed Child.- 12. Factors Affecting the Development and Evaluation of Handicapped Children.- Discussion of Normal Development.- III Intervention: Interventions for Deviant Development.- 13. Biological Interventions in Psychoses of Childhood.- 14. Perceptual Training: A Critical Retrospect.- 15. A Behavior Modification Approach to the Treatment of Autistic Children.- 16. On the Structure of Inner and Outer Spielraum-the Play Space of the Schizophrenic Child.- 17. Educational Strategies for the Autistic Child.- 18. Residential Care for Normal and Deviant Children.- 19. Developmental Therapy: A Program Model for Providing Individualized Services in the Community.- Discussion of Intervention Section.- Author Index.