Cerebral palsied children present a variety of problems in adjustment on the ground that the handicaps resulted from their neuromuscular damages are complexes. The present article attempts to investigate some of the research findings concerning the psychological problems aroused from the cerebral palsy, with a view to getting better understanding about the. relationship of the cerebral dysfunction to others disturbances on the one hand and the impacts of physical handicaps to the socioaffective adjustment on the other.
The following aspects of psychological implication of the cerebral palsy have been examined:
(1) The neuro-motor disability and its related disorders;
(2) Some controversial conceptions about the intellectual assessment of cerebral palsied;
(3) The involvements in the visuo-motor perception;
(4) The consequent handicaps on learning-efficiency;
(5) The impacts of orthopedic disability on social adjustment;
(6) The evaluation of the Self-concept and the acceptance of handicaps;
(7) The analysis of the parent-child relationship.
In addition to a brief discussion on the difficult assessment problems of these motor-sensual handicapped children, the author presents a summary of his pilot research on the self-acceptance and the related defense mechanisms of the cerebral palsied children in Paris. The finding is that the physical handicaps do not necessarily determine the maladjusted behavior, however, a certain reorganization of the value-system on behalf of their self-structure is, in most occasions, happened.
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Psychological Issues of Children with Cerebral Palsy
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