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SOCIAL VULNERABILITY AND ADJUSTMENT OF CEREBRAL PALSIED CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Nielsen Helle H.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1964.tb01405.x
Subject(s) - cerebral palsied , psychology , jealousy , cerebral palsy , hostility , developmental psychology , feeling , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry
Social adjustment of forty cerebral palsied children was studied by means of the Düss Fable Test, and interviews with parents and teachers. More cerebral palsied than normal children apperceived the fables as containing rejective and frustrating elements and responded with feelings of hostility, jealousy and defiance. The cerebral palsied children revealed a more dependent and conflict‐laden relationship with their parents. One third of the cerebral palsied children showed a poor social adjustment in school but those with harmonious family background obtained a satisfactory social adjustment in school. The data gave no support for the existence of a typical psychological syndrome of cerebral palsy.