“Difficult Child” – Treatment or Upbringing? Diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities of the autonomic resonance test

AUTHORS : Kosareva L.B. | Avanesova E.G. | Avanesova T.S. | Gotovsky Yu.V. | Gililova E.M.

RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : City Children’s Clinic No. 81; Center “IMEDIS”, Moscow, Russia

YEAR : 2004 | Category : Educational

A difficult child is a multifaceted concept that includes pedagogical, medical and psychological aspects. Frequent whims and unreasonable mood changes, character disorders – aggressiveness, negativism, poor academic performance, difficult adaptation at school, difficulties in relations with peers, teachers, unmotivated stubbornness – this is not a complete list of those characteristics that we mean when we use this term – “difficult child”.

On the basis of the Consultative and Diagnostic Center of the Children’s Polyclinic No. 81 in Moscow (chief physician – Gililova E.M.), examining a group of children whose parents presented the above complaints, we tried to to analyze what influences the formation of a complex character in a child, is it a disease or a cost of upbringing? We observed 128 school-age children (from 7 to 15 years old), 75 boys and 53 girls with various character disorders: parents complained that children are often angry, aggressive, fight with peers in the yard and at school, and are rude to teachers , study poorly.

When trying to force them to do their homework, children immediately complain of a headache, are capricious. All peaceful conversations between parents and children are “in vain”, and when you try to make a remark, the child has resentment, tears, and isolation for a long time. Parents’ contact with such children is either formal or absent altogether.