FEATURES OF CLINICAL AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN

The relevance of the study is due to the growing need for psychiatric examination of children in the first years of life and objective difficulties in clinical and psychopathological examination of a young child. In particular, the main method of psychopathological diagnostics – clinical conversation turns out to be informative. In such conditions, a contextual analysis of the child's behavior, supplemented by a clinical and anamnestic method, should be considered a leading examination method