|
KMID : 1037320080010010001
|
|
Korean Journal of Infant Mental Health
2008 Volume.1 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.10
|
|
|
Diagnostic Evaluation of Psychiatric Problems in Early Childhood
|
|
Shin Yee-Jin
Oh Kyung-Min
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
Recently, due to dramatic social changes such as more women working outside home, a great increase in mothers’ passion for educating their children from early age, and heightened awareness of early childhood mental problems, we are finding that an increasing number of children under the age of 4 have developmental problems, and nursery schools and organizations are reporting that children having behavioral developmental problems are increasing. Although the number of infants and children, who are at risk of developmental problems, rises, no enough clinical framework, which can be used to evaluate and diagnose them properly, has been established yet. Also, early intervention programs and research results supporting effectiveness of the programs are not sufficient. Early childhood’s psychopathology has the following characteristics. First, since children’s developmental pathologies are rapidly changing in line with children’s rapid development, it is very difficult to measure them objectively. Second, pathologies are highly affected by circumstantial factors, including children’s relationship with main caregivers. Third, it is difficult to determine whether what is seen now is simply a developmental problem or pathological problem. In fact, well-known psychiatry diagnostic classification systems such as the DSM and ICD fail to reflect and explain young children’s psychopathologies. Therefore, a new diagnostic classification system for infants and young children, called DC O-3, has been developed in the U.S. This paper introduces some classification and diagnostic evaluation steps of early childhood psychopatholgies.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
early childhood, psychiartic problems, diagnostic evaluation, DC:0-3
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|
|