La créativité, ressource potentielle de l’enfant et l’adolescent, à évaluer, révéler et développer

Abstract

Creativity is increasingly important in our society, so it is important to evaluate it and develop it from the youngest age. Creativity refers to the ability to generate productions that are original and meaningful in their production-based context. This article presents the concept of high creative potential, which can be distinguished from high intellectual potential. We then present the Evaluation of Creative Potential (EPoC) battery, which allows creative potential to be measured in two types of thinking (divergent-exploratory vs. convergent-integrative) in several domains of application (verbal-literary vs. graphic-artistic). Norms for elementary school children are available, and new norms are under development for middle school children (for applications within the fields of verbal-literary, graphic-artistic and social domains). The interest of this battery for psychologists and psychiatrists is discussed in the context of both the psychological assessment and therapeutic tracking.