A Neuropsychodiagnostic Model

Abstract

Central Nervous System pathology in children is regarded as a neurophysiological and/or neuroanatomical disorder leading to the production of a broad spectrum of symptomatic indicators, many of which are psychological in nature. This fundamental relationship between neurological integrity and various categories of psychopathology represents the theoretical core of a specific diagnostic rationale elaborated in the context of a neuropsychodiagnostic model.

A battery of psychological tests, as one component of a more general assessment approach, is proposed as a psychoeducational method complementing the more traditional medical approach to the diagnosis of various neuropathological conditions in children, especially minimal brain damage/dysfunction.

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Dominic Amante

Joyce Laing works in the Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, Playfield House, Cupar, Fife, and is a Consultant Art Therapist to Psychiatric Hospitals and Prisons and Chairwoman of the Scottish Society of Art and Psychology