Kusch M, Petermann F
Psychologisches Institut, Universität Bonn.
Z Klin Psychol Psychopathol Psychother. 1990;38(3):206-24.
This article describes a new assessment of the social behaviour of autistic children. The relevance of clinical and developmental diagnostic criteria for the social interaction with autistic children will be illustrated. A practical example stresses that new developmental psychology studies on autistic children's reciprocal interaction, analyse the social behavior in the "social context". Aspects of the social context--the social situation and the background knowledge--are used to demonstrate the construction of observation units. Those units will structure and help to control the social interaction of the examiner and the child. One observation unit consists of the interactional situation, the interactional style and the interaction behavior. The construction of several observational units as quasi-natural situations and the audio-visual record of the social behavior in those situations permit the collection of qualitative deviations in the social behavior of autistic children. Identification, differential diagnosis and therapy-orientated assessment can be based on those informations.
本文描述了对自闭症儿童社会行为的一项新评估。将说明临床和发育诊断标准与自闭症儿童社会互动的相关性。一个实际例子强调，关于自闭症儿童相互作用的新发展心理学研究在“社会背景”中分析社会行为。社会背景的各个方面——社会情境和背景知识——被用来展示观察单元的构建。这些单元将构建并有助于控制检查者与儿童之间的社会互动。一个观察单元由互动情境、互动风格和互动行为组成。构建若干作为准自然情境的观察单元以及这些情境中社会行为的视听记录，有助于收集自闭症儿童社会行为中的质性偏差。识别、鉴别诊断和以治疗为导向的评估可以基于这些信息。
