The Experience of Application of Stroop Test in the Diagnostic of Attention in Children and Adolescents with Mental Illnesses
The article attempts to comprehend the use of the Stroop Test in attention diagnostics of children and adolescents with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, schizotypal disorder, etc. A brief review of the history of elaboration and the main parameters of the Stroop Test evaluation are presented. With the use of the 90 patients sample aged from 7 to 16 years, the diagnostic capabilities of the Stroop Test were analyzed both based on traditional indicators and proposed by the author. The results of patients are correlated with the age standards. The specificity of attention dysfunction of patients with certain nosology, estimated by the Stroop Test, is shown.