(Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Yonsei University, Dental College)
(연세대학교 치과대학 소아치과학교실)
Psychological and cognitive development in child and adolescent periods is key knowledge for understanding children and adolescents' behavior and inducing their actions. So far, psychoanalytic approaches have been primarily researched by Freud's analytical tools and Piaget's analysis on cognitive developments have been mainly employed to explore children and adolescents' psychological developments. In addition, other various theories have been suggested in order to explain children and adolescents' psychological developments. However, in reality, it is difficult to integrate diverse theoretical lens to investigate children and adolescents' psychological developments. Considering this constraint, in clinical dentistry, the conventional theoretical instruments have been still widely employed to guide children and adolescents' behavior.