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Le compagnon imaginaire et les paracosmes dans le développement typique et atypique à partir d’un cas clinique
- Source :
- Enfance. :103-116
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- CAIRN, 2013.
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Abstract
- EnglishThe authors describe the case of a child who was examined when he was 9 years 2 months, after having received a diagnosis of Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) when he was 4 years 10 months. The authors focus on the child's solitary and imagination activities, particularly his imaginary companion and his paracosms, within a general profile of his cognitive, linguistic and social cognition abilities. The child's profile was established partly by using standardized tests assessing intellectual, linguistic and social cognition abilities, and partly by using a semi-structured interview focused on the child's representations of his friend relationships. The results at the tests were analyzed in relation with the age norms for typical development, whereas the child's representations of friend relationships were analyzed in qualitative terms. The child showed brilliant general cognitive capabilities, adult-like language abilities and sophisticated intellectual concerns. However, some social cognition subtests and the semi-structured interview highlighted relevant difficulties in reading mental states. His solitary behaviors were overdeveloped and his imagination activities showed atypical characteristics. The present case study analyzes the distinctive features of these activities in quantitative, qualitative and functional terms, stressing the metacognitive and the emotional dimension inherent to the child's imaginative representations. francaisLes auteurs analysent le cas d'un enfant examine a 9 ans 2 mois, a la suite d'un diagnostic de troubles envahissants du developpement non specifies (TED-NS) effectue a l'âge de 4 ans 10 mois, en considerant son profil cognitif, langagier et de cognition sociale, et la nature de ses conduites solitaires et d'imagination, particulierement celles concernant son compagnon imaginaire et ses paracosmes. Le profil de l'enfant est etabli sur la base de tests standardises, d'intelligence, de langage et de cognition sociale, et d'un interrogatoire semi-structure. Ces donnees sont analysees en partie en rapport avec les normes d'âge prevues par les tests, et en partie dans leurs aspects idiosyncrasiques, tels qu'ils emergent des declarations spontanees de l'enfant et de son diagnostic precedent. L'enfant fait preuve de brillantes capacites cognitives generales, d'habiletes langagieres recherchees et d'interets intellectuels sophistiques. Toutefois, certaines epreuves de cognition sociale et l'interrogatoire semi-structure mettent en evidence des difficultes importantes dans sa representation des intentions des autres vis-a-vis de lui. Les comportements solitaires de l'enfant sont tres marques, et s'accompagnent d'une activite d'imagination hyperdeveloppee. La presente etude analyse les traits distinctifs de cette activite d'imagination du point de vue quantitatif, qualitatif et fonctionnel, en mettant l'accent sur la fonction metacognitive et sur la dimension emotionnelle inherentes a cet univers imaginaire.
- Subjects :
- Health (social science)
Metacognition
Cognition
medicine.disease
Developmental psychology
Education
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Social cognition
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
medicine
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Psychology
Humanities
The Imaginary
Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00137545
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Enfance
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3f6ba6101310aba28c4cc07b8b3347db
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3917/enf1.132.0103