Abstract
The article presents summarized results of qualitative studies exploring child development in norm and pathology; studies were conducted within the framework of cultural–historical approach developed by L.S. Vygotsky and A.R. Luria and aimed at further methodological elaboration of the approach. The article demonstrates that such research needs to be multidimensional and to include multilevel analysis; it stresses on the importance of analyzing developmental norms in the context of certain social groups, subcultures, etc. The article explores shaping of developmental risks in certain cultural settings and insists on the significance of understanding developmental deviations in the context of normative developmental matrix approved by this social group. The conducted study demonstrates how this method of assessment allows to evaluate structural peculiarities and inner psychodynamics of developmental deviations more precisely within the reconstructed developmental matrix. Such data structure describing child development in certain social group allows to organize correction of development in a systematic manner as well as to design optimal organization of development.
 Keywords: cultural–historical analysis, psychological development, developmental norms, child clinical psychology
Highlights
Mental and psychological health is one of the most important problems of modern time
If disorders are perceived not as diseases, but as psychodynamic personality organizations, it opens up new research opportunities. To implement this approach in clinical psychology, a researcher needs to adopt phenomenological view on disorder, to understand the situation from within based on psychological processes proceeding in the mind of the patient and in the context of his/her development
The study based on exploration of peculiarities of child development has shown that the settings of child-centrism typical of medium and high social strata in big urban centers determine peculiarities of development that differ from ones observed in small village distant from Moscow
Summary
Mental and psychological health is one of the most important problems of modern time. It is relevant both for Western and Eastern societies including Russian society. Historical process develops faster than ever before and historical traditions and norms change fast as well. It results in different variations of personal development within culture, new identification types and various deviations of behavior. Due to acceleration of historical time we witness how fast the boundary. In The Fifth International Luria Memorial Congress «Lurian Approach in International Psychological Science», KnE Life Sciences, pages 182–188.
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