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We aimed to explore the developmental trajectory of depressive symptoms in a national sample of French children with a high intellectual potential (HIP) seeking help from gifted organizations. Participants were drawn from a national retrospective survey sent to 1200 families with HIP children (IQ ≥ 130) from primary to high school and they answered a self-report questionnaire of a depression scale (MDI-C). The children's parents completed a self-report questionnaire collected on different stages of the child's school level, perinatality, psychomotor development, health, family's history, behavior, interpersonal relationships and daily activities, school performance, presence of learning disorders and remediation. Four hundred and twenty HIP children were eligible with an IQ ≥ 130 aged from 8 to 17 years-old, 49% with depressive symptoms and 51% with no depressive symptoms. Analysis of 136 variables from anamnestic fields based on the use of Spearman's ρ test (ρ) with a non-parametric correlations showed that "learning disabilities" are significantly related to depressive symptoms in different groups (primary p = 0.001, middle p = 0.02, high school p = 0.001) as well as "difficulties in psychomotor skills" during primary (p = 0.003) and middle school (p = 0.02). Good relationships with family as well as with peers are significantly negatively correlated with depressive symptoms from childhood to primary (p = 0.003) and high school (p = 0.02). Certain details of correlations between the MDI-C scale's subfactors and anamnestic variables were analyzed. The ANOVA test about the MDI-C scale showed provocation as a significant marker at middle school (F (1, 418) = 3.487, p = 0.03) and low self-esteem at high school (F (1, 418) = 3.337, p = 0.03). A holistic developmental approach allowed us to highlight the risk factors of depression with a developmental trajectory origin linked to disorders of social adjustment and psychomotor skills and to the importance of misdiagnosed learning disabilities because of giftedness. Our findings support the interest in an early identification of and intervention in depression risk to improve clinical decision making on the effect of giftedness on mental health outcomes.
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Este artigo relata a experiência de um estágio desenvolvido com crianças e adolescentes em acolhimento institucional na cidade de Joinville - SC. O objetivo do trabalho realizado foi estimular relações e vínculos socioafetivos nas crianças e adolescentes em acolhimento institucional, por meio de jogos. Participaram do grupo oito crianças e adolescentes entre 10 e 17 anos. Foram realizados três encontros, entre julho e agosto de 2019, sendo os dois primeiros para apresentação e reconhecimento do campo, e o terceiro para intervenção. A prática psicopedagógica institucional, dialética e coletiva, apresenta-se como um momento de troca entre o psicopedagogo e os sujeitos, um momento construído do coletivo, para o coletivo. Por meio de jogos, atividades lúdicas e coletivas, assim como a atribuição de papéis e responsabilidades, além de construir regras e combinados em conjunto, foi possível perceber algumas mudanças na relação entre os acolhidos.
This article reports the experience of an internship developed with children and teenagers sheltered in an institutional care in the city of Joinville - SC. The objective of the work was to stimulate relationships and social-affective bonds in children and teenagers in institutional care, through games. Eight children and teenagers between 10 and 17 years old participated in the group. Three meetings were held, between July and August 2019, the first two for presentation and recognition of the field, and the third for intervention. The institutional, dialectical and collective psychopedagogical practice presents itself as a moment of exchange between the psychopedagogue and the subjects, a moment constructed from the collective to the collective. Through games, recreational and collective activities, as well as the attribution of roles and responsibilities, in addition to building rules and add arrangements, it was possible to see some changes in the relationship between the hosted.
