THE EARLY PLAY OF THE BABY AS AN INDICATOR OF RISK OF PSYCHICAL DISTRESS

Authors

  • Camila Saboia Pós-Doutoranda do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo (IPUSP). Membro do Lugar de Vida - Centro de Educação Terapêutica, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v20i2p181-193

Keywords:

early play, symbolic play, autism, early intervention.

Abstract

Using the notion that the first spontaneous and creative gestures of babies reveal important aspects of the quality of their first early relationships with the maternal object, as well as their process of adaptation to an environment considered as good enough, we can assume that the primitive play of babies has an im- portant role to identify psychical distress. Through a longitudinal study of infants showing risk of autism, followed between 6 months and 3 years, we could find that the way these babies explore, interact and respond to a shared play with others significantly differ from babies who have a developmental delay without autistic traits, and healthy (normal) babies. 

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Author Biography

  • Camila Saboia, Pós-Doutoranda do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo (IPUSP). Membro do Lugar de Vida - Centro de Educação Terapêutica, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

    Psicóloga e psicanalista. Doutora pela Universidade de Paris 7. Pós-Doutoranda do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo (IPUSP). Membro do Lugar de Vida - Centro de Educação Terapêutica, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 

Published

2015-08-30

How to Cite

Saboia, C. (2015). THE EARLY PLAY OF THE BABY AS AN INDICATOR OF RISK OF PSYCHICAL DISTRESS. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 20(2), 181-193. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v20i2p181-193