Une nouvelle conception des études sémiologiques : « l’épidémiologie sémiologique développementale » = Semiological research as a new key: an epidemiological approach to the study of developmental semiology

Scholl, Jean-Marc;Philippe, Paule;Pérée, Francis;Zdanowicz, Nicolas;Ansseau, Marc
(2011) L’Information Psychiatrique — Vol. 87, n° 4, p. 313-320 (2011)

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  • Scholl, Jean-Marc
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  • Philippe, Paule
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  • Pérée, Francis
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  • Zdanowicz, Nicolasorcid-logoUCLouvain
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  • Ansseau, Marc
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(en) The article identifies the focus of interest in semiological studies, presents concepts related to semiology, and proposes a refinement of semiological research by means of an “epidemiological approach to the study of developmental semiology”. The article begins by sketching the history of developmental psychopathology. Next, it addresses its theoretical foundations, which hitherto have focused primarily on the semiological study of individual childhood development insofar as it is liable to a maladjustment of one sort or another. Now, in our view, the study of development involves two further challenges. On the one hand, it is necessary to disentangle the semiological elements initially observed as part of a total phenomenon. Meeting this challenge requires the creation of new semiological concepts in order to account of our observations. On the other hand, we need to elaborate epigenetic models for the origin of developmental pathways, models that take account of the multiple, continuously interacting factors that characterize such pathways. With these two desiderata in mind, we proceed to the third stage of our exposition, which presents our own approach to semiology. This approach includes the following distinctive features: comparison with normal populations, establishment of a continuum between normal and pathological development, integration of the dimensional and categorical aspects, and attention to the variation of semiological expression during development. This sets the stage for the concluding part of the article, in which we outline a program of semiological research in order to illustrate what we mean by an “epidemiological approach to the study of developmental semiology”.
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Scholl, J.-M., Philippe, P., Pérée, F., Zdanowicz, N., & Ansseau, M. (2011). Une nouvelle conception des études sémiologiques : « l’épidémiologie sémiologique développementale » = Semiological research as a new key: an epidemiological approach to the study of developmental semiology. L’Information Psychiatrique, 87(4), 313-320. https://doi.org/10.1684/ipe.2011.0777 (Original work published 2011)