Family functioning - resilience factor for children and adolescents with psychopathological disorders

Hypothesis: High scores obtained applying psychological test and scales for family functioning are statistically significant for the risk / protection and resilience in the development of psychopathological conditions in children and adolescents. Material and method : psychological tests and scales for family functioning and psychopathological conditions were applied to indoor patients of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Compartment of Psychiatry Hospital Titan "Constantin Gorgos" and to a control group of scholars assumed from families with normal functioning. Used scales were: Kid-SCID, Raven, ASEBA, SDQ, FAD, ADHD-RS, M_CHAT. Inclusion criteria: indoor patients - complete battery of tests and scales for diagnosis and family functioning; psychological assessment; normal cognitive development control group - the same battery of tests and scales were applied Results: The retrospective study of observational charts of referrals from the 1st of February 2012 -the 15th of December 2013 grouped the patients into demographical variables; the same criteria were used for the control group. The tests results were statistical interpreted. Highly significant scores were obtained in ASEBA scales applied to parents and adolescents. Conclusions: Dysfunctional family environment with a lack of encouragement and support as parental style, disorganized attachment, unclear familial roles and high emotional expression offer the frame for developing psychopathological conditions in children and adolescent and do not offer the resilience needed for an adequate psycho-social-emotional development. Further studies are necessary for a better correlation between psychopathology and familial variables.