Abstract

GAUY, Fabiana Vieira  and  ROCHA, Marina Monzani da. Clinical manifestation, classification models and risk/protective factors for psychopathology in childhood and adolescence. Temas psicol. [online]. 2014, vol.22, n.4, pp. 783-793. ISSN 1413-389X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.9788/TP2014.4-09.

Although attention to children and adolescents mental health has increased since the beginning of the XXI century, works in this area are still incipient and there is little published in the literature on juvenile mental health intervention in comparison with what has been accomplished with adults. Issues related to children and adolescent psychopathologies have singularities and deserve different considerations regarding the evolution, classification and treatment, especially considering individual development stages. This paper aims to address three aspects associated with children and adolescent mental health that imposes great impact both on the diagnosis and prognosis of emotional and behavioral difficulties, namely: (a) heterogeneous clinical manifestations, (b) clinical classification, and (c) risk and protective factors. From the presented considerations, we defend that early intervention with preventive aspects, aiming to prevent or minimize future problems, targeting the population that may or at risk, are urgent and should be dealt as priority.

Keywords : Mental health; psychopathology; infancy; adolescence.

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