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CLINICAL PATHWAY OF A CHILD DIAGNOSED WITH PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER (PDD) AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH TECHNOLOGY: FROM BEING CAPTURED BY IT TO BECOMING A MEDIATING OBJECT FOR ENCOUNTERING OTHERS

Abstract

The text recounts the clinical journey with a child who begins therapeutic treatment at the age of 6, shortly after having received the medical diagnosis of Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD).

At first, the child showed difficulties in relating to others besides his mother. He expressed this difficulty through intense anguish, evasive behaviors, aimless movements, anger, shouting, and rigid and stereotyped interests, closely related to the content he watched on the various screens available at home.

Currently, after six years of work, the child uses technology to showcase his artistic creations on social media, with the intention of gaining followers and friends, and a strong desire to build bonds with others.

In turn, I will describe some of the interventions carried out both with the child and with the family, accounting for the different modalities his relationship with technology took on, as his psychic apparatus became enriched, thus showing the evolution of the work carried out.