Perception of body self of children suffering from chronic heart disease and parent coping strategy

Developmental outcomes of preterm birth: Cognitive and behavioural problems in moderately preterm children at preschool age

Moderately preterm birth seems to be an evolutional risk condition at cognitive, behavioural and socio-relational levels. The study is aimed to investigate the likely occurrence of precursors of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in moderately preterm children at preschool age. The research involved an experimental group made up of 50 moderately preterm children (mean: 34.6 weeks’ gestational age, standard deviation [SD]: 2) without any medical and neurologic neonatal complications and low birth weight (mean:2100g., SD: 350g.) and a check group of 50 full term born children. Parents and teachers of children were administered specific questionnaires to detect ADHD. The outcomes …

La rappresentazione del sé corporeo in condizioni di patologie croniche diversamente trattate

Il contributo presenta uno studio sulla rappresentazione del sé corporeo in bambini con patologie croniche diversamente trattate, al fine di esplorare possibili risorse funzionali alla gestione della condizione di rischio costituita dalla patologia; nello specifico, gli indicatori delle risorse vanno individuati, su un piano qualitativo, nell’adeguatezza dell’immagine del corpo, nell’integrità dell’immagine di sé, nell’integrazione di mappe cognitive e, su un piano quantitativo, nel quoziente di maturità cognitiva. Lo studio ha previsto il coinvolgimento di un gruppo di 52 bambini (età media 10 anni) di cui un 50% con patologie croniche che prevedono trattamenti invasivi, caratterizzati da …

La Psicologia pediatrica oltre la Psicologia in Pediatria

Rehabilitative training of preterm children’s attention: a study on sustainability

This article is concerned with the description of rehabilitative training aimed at severely and moderately preterm children at preschool age who display impairments of processes of selective attention, self-control and problem solving and who are at risk of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders. In line with a perspective of field study suggested by pediatric psychology, the treatment calls for the involvement of parents, teachers, neonatologists and children’s reference pediatricians. To be more precise, it is a study aimed at investigating the sustainability of the training path in terms of impact and transformative valence of the focalised processes. Involved in the study was a group…

UN MODELLO DI SUPPORTO DI SISTEMA NEI CONTESTI DI CURA IN AREA MATERNO-INFANTILE.

Corso di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e dell’Educazione con elementi di Psicologia pediatrica

Los precursores de la baja atención e hiperactividad en niños moderadamente y muy prematuros en edad preescolar

Abstract La escasa atención e hiperactividad son las morbilidades asociadas con el nacimiento muy prematuro y moderadamente. El objetivo del estudio es investigar la posible presencia de los primeros precursores de Déficit de Atención e Hiperactividad (TDAH) en niños muy prematuros y moderadamente en la edad preescolar. Los niños participantes fueron: 25 niños muy prematuros (M = 29,4 semanas de edad gestacional, SD = 2), con bajo peso al nacer, 35 niños moderadamente prematuros (M = 1.200 g, SD = 250 g.).: 34,6 semanas de edad gestacional, SD: 1) con bajo peso al nacer (M: 2100g, SD:.. 250 g), 60 niños sanos a término como grupo control. Los padres de los niños se administraron cuestionari…