Mourning and Reidealization in the Childhood Clinic: Case Study

Abstract

Objectives: to analyze the process of reidealization of the child with autistic disorder in the singular clinic of the child and his family; to observe the effects of this clinic on children’s linguistic, cognitive and psychic development. Method: Clinical case analysis of a two year and eleven month old child diagnosed with autistic disorder, and his mother. The psychological evaluation was performed through APEGI and CARS before and after the intervention, as well as language evaluation through the Signs of Acquisition of Language and clinical observation. Results: The process of re-signification of the child’s disability through the dimensions of competence, aesthetic and future, was based on the development of the child’s linguistic, cognitive and subjective potentialities. Conclusion: the reidealization of the child with autistic disorder occurred from listening to the mother and from her discovery of the child’s linguistic, cognitive and subjective potentialities, which had a positive repercussion on the child’s development