Abstract

KREMER, Irene. What do we call health and mental disorders in pediatrics?: A reflexive outlook on the psychiatry diagnosis and its relation with the new subjetive theories in children. Arch. argent. pediatr. [online]. 2011, vol.109, n.5, pp.412-416. ISSN 0325-0075.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5546/aap.2011.412.

Conceptual basis for Infant and Juvenile Psychiatry are discussed taking into account the clear differences in the definition of Health and Mental Illness. It is emphasized that the mind is not simply a biological phenomenon and, thus, there is a need for assessment parameters that include subjective states, as well as a shift from lineal thoughts to complex forms that include the value of experience, fate, and event, amongst other ideas. This allows a change of perspective: the acknowledgement of the Positive Indicators of Mental Health and not only the absence of symptoms or disorders.

Keywords : Psychiatry infant and juvenile; Indicators of mental health.

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