Differences in visual perception and in visual-motor functioning between psychotic and nonpsychotic children.

Safrin, Renate Kersten

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“…However when Safrin (1964) attempted to validate this thesis, he failed to find signs of such a maturational lag in his psychotic subjects. Mahler (1952), in an earlier discussion of a condition which she labelled &dquo;symbiotic child psychosis,&dquo; had also postulated maturational lag.…”

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Autism, Childhood Schizophrenia and Culture: A Critical Review of the Literature

Sanua¹

1981

Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review

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Although sociocultural variations in the distribution of adult schizophrenia are quite widely recognized today, the situation respecting childhood schizophrenia and infantile autism is much less clear, in part due to the considerable ambiguity regarding the classification of childhood psychoses which has existed since the latter part of the nineteenth century when psychiatrists began to discuss the existence of such states. As the important categories used today carg-y either an autistic or a schizophrenic connotation, this paper will use the single term childhood schizophrenia to cover all serious disturbances of early childhood which are considered to be of a psychotic nature while the term autism will be used to refer only to children with specific symptoms such as those described by Kanner and Eisenberg (1955), including extr eme self-isolation and the obsessive insistence on sameness. These two diagnostic criteria are the sources from which the other clinical classifications are derived. It is to be noted that the labels &dquo;childhood psychosis,&dquo; &dquo;childhood schizophrenia,&dquo; and 11 infantile autism&dquo; are used interchangeably by many researchers. This has resulted in contr adictory findings by various investigators.Probably the first recognition of psychosis in children was by DeSanctis (1908) who used the term &dquo;dementia praecocissima&dquo; to designate a psychotic condition found in feeble-minded children in Italy. However the term did not gain wide acceptance. For a time the condition was confused with Heller's disease, which was later found to be due to an acute degeneration of ganglion cells, and it was not until the early 1930s that a link was established between this childhood disorder and the clinical picture of schizophrenia or dementia praecox as described by Kraepelin and Bleuler. As the condition became the target of serious study, researchers such as

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Autism, Childhood Schizophrenia and Culture: A Critical Review of the Literature

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1981

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“…Several studies have explored the effects of intelligence and of organicity on the Bender responses of schizophrenic children. Goldberg (1957) found a significant correlation between Bender scores and IQ for retarded children 11-16 years of age, but not for a matched group of schizophrenics; but Safrin (1964) found a strong relationship between level of visual motor functioning and mental age in both schizophrenic and normal children. Safrin found no relationship between Bender scores and the presence or absence of neurological deficits, and McConnell (1967) found that Koppitz developmental scores for the Bender were related to various levels of organicity and that nonorganic psychotics were undifferentiated from children with minimal levels of organicity.…”

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Visual motor performance of psychotic children.

Haworth¹

1981

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Visual motor deviations of psychotic children were explored by means of a Childhood Psychosis Scale applied to the Primary Visual Motor Test protocols of 130 psychotic children, ages 6-12 years, and 507 normal and retarded controls. Differences were highly significant, with 45.4% of the psychotic sample achieving critical scores on the scale as compared to 1.7% of the 300 normal children and 12.9% of 193 children with IQs below 80. It was possible to match 94 of the psychotic children with nonpsychotic controls on the basis of chronological age (CA) and mental age (MA). Significantly more psychotics than matched controls were high scorers. There was no correlation between critical scores and CA for either group. Correlations with MA were moderately significant for each group; that is, children with lower MAs were more apt to show critical scores on the scale. In IQ comparisons significantly more psychotics who were retarded had critical scores than did normal-IQ psychotics; there was no relationship between critical scores and intellectual level in the control group. Age at diagnosis, type and length of treatment, recency of diagnosis, and degree of organicity did not discriminate between high-and low-responding psychotics. Base rate problems and theoretical aspects of the scale items are discussed. The scale appears useful as a screening device for normal and retarded children under the age of 13 years, with particular utility in detecting psychotic aspects of functioning among the retarded.In the 40 years since Bender (1938) first called attention to the deviant productions Appreciation is extended to the directors, supervisors, teachers, staff, and the children in the children's units of the following institutions for their cooperation and assistance: Nebraska Psychiatric Institute; Lincoln

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Deviant and Normal Social Development

Hassibi

BreuerJr.

1980

Disordered Thinking and Communication in Children

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Differences in visual perception and in visual-motor functioning between psychotic and nonpsychotic children.

Abstract: The writer wishes to express her thanks to the members of her Dissertation Committee, Laurance F. Shaffer, Rosedith Sitgreaves, Joel R. Davitz, and, most especially, the chairman of the committee, Edward J. Shoben, Jr., for their steady guidance, assistance, and encouragement.

Cited by 8 publications

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Autism, Childhood Schizophrenia and Culture: A Critical Review of the Literature

Autism, Childhood Schizophrenia and Culture: A Critical Review of the Literature

Visual motor performance of psychotic children.

Deviant and Normal Social Development

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