Avaliação psicológica de crianças

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Alt, Melissa dos Santos
• Orientador(a): Nunes, Maria Lúcia Tiellet
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: PSICOLOGIA CLÍNICA; TESTES PSICOLÓGICOS; FÁBULAS; PSICOLOGIA INFANTIL
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/4915

This master’s dissertation has two sections. The first one is a literature review about objective tests and projective tests: its place in psychological evaluation. Even till today regardless of the rich history and proved utility, psychological measurement gives origin to hard discussions amongst psychologists and part of the debate is about the status of projective and objective instruments. Positive and negative aspects, vantages and advantages and differences in both techniques are discussed. It is suggested that psychologist having at disposal the two possibilities of tests should take profit of such circumstances instead of focusing in their difficulties and in not respecting both kinds of tests. The second section deals with psychological evaluation of children. Its objective was to verify the concordance among judges regarding the verbatim of children to the Fables Test via CBCL categories. The task consisted in verifying such categories of problems in each story the child created in the test. Each child had its production to the Fables test examined by three judges and their concordance level was calculated by Kappa. Taking in account the behavior identified via CBCL to the verbatim to the Fables Test the Kappa between judges was moderate (Kappa 0,411 for the behavior of breaking rules to 0,508 to somatic complains); regarding themes of the Fables Test Kappa values ran from substantial to almost perfect (Object fable with Kappa equals 0,745 and Anniversary Fable with Kappa equals 0,849). These results permit to demonstrate concordance with such values that turned possible to enunciate that a child manifests itself projectively in such a way that judges are able to classify its behavior.