title: A guide to differentiated developmental diagnosis with a case demonstrating its use.
abstract: The great influx of children needing assessment has presented all diagnosticians with a large body of patients whose conflicts are relatively unfamiliar ones. These children do not fit into the expectable pattern of normal development, nor is an adult-oriented frame of reference of much help in understanding them. What seems needed is a schema in which the developmental deficiencies of these children are related to their present functioning. This paper introduces a guide covering five aspects of development. The guide gives descriptions of normal functioning at ages 0 to 1 1/2, 1 1/2 to 3, 3 to 6, and 6 to 10, and also shows the persistence of this functioning as it is reflected in the attitudes, feelings, and behavior of primary school children. A case illustration is presented that demonstrates the use of the guide.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001009:Anxiety, Castration; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004532:Ego; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011385:Projection; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D012557:Schizoid Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D012951:Socialization