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QUEIROS, Otília; GOLDSCHMIDT, Teresa; ALMEIDA, Sara  e  GONCALVES, Maria José. O outro lado das birras: alterações de comportamento na 1.ª infância. Aná. Psicológica [online]. 2003, vol.21, n.1, pp.95-102. ISSN 0870-8231.

One of the principle causes of toddler psychiatry consultation are the behaviour disorder, which are a symptom that brings up a huge disturbance in the familiar dynamics. It's about a symptom that is common to a several clinical boards, whose comprehension is fundamental for a proper therapeutic intervention and diagnosis. At the toddler, the straight delimitation of the clinical boards becomes difficult by the quick changes in the development, by the lack of specificity of the causal factors and by the contribution of the relationship disorders, for the child pathology. More important than the symptoms is the level of the internal structures functioning, namely the self organization which is important to evaluate at this circumstances. In this work, the authors made a revision of the UPI cases, relatively to the behaviour disorders, during a three year period, and being presented their diagnosis by a DC: 0-3 (Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood), axis I - primary diagnosis and II - relationship disorders. The authors also present clinical figures cases from the psychopathology that could underlying this symptom.

Palavras-chave : Obstinacy; DC: 0-3; toddler psychopathology.

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