Abstract

At this study, the nature of clinical intervention program for child & adolescent clinical cases has been discussed especially in a view of developmental psychology. Child & adolescent`s psychological and adaptational problems, so-called developmental disorder have been dealt with a name of developmental psychopathology or clinical developmental psychology. It has been scrutinized that how developmental view can be applied to deal with the clinical cases for developmental disorder, and contribute to organize intervention activities for evaluating and intervening adaptational problems in developmental path Developmental psychopathology is a part of developmental psychology that has studied and explained developmental results, mechanism of mal-adaptational problems and their changes from a developmental process. Clinical developmental psychology is an extention of those activities in developmental psychopathology to do developmental intervention for clinical problems. It has noticeable differences from a medical model of child & adolescent psychopathology model that was generally accepted in clinical psychology. Clinical developmental psychology leads our attention to apply developmental view to evaluate adaptational and psychological problems and to construct a developmentally oriented intervention programs. The developmental view has been expressed itself in following concepts, such as developmental pathways, risk factors, developmental crisis, organismic resilience, plasticity and employed the impact of diverse developmental context in each developmental level.