The development and application of conflict-specific story completion tasks as part of OPD diagnostics in childhood

Abstract

The development and application of conflict-specific story completion tasks as part of OPD diagnostics in childhood Abstract. The study combines use of the MacArthur Story Stem Battery (MSSB) with the Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics in Childhood and Adolescence (OPD-CA-2). It describes the development and application of conflict-specific story completion tasks, which are meant to enable a systematic evaluation of the conflict axis and the structure axis of Age Group 2. It determines interrater reliability for the conflict axis and the structure axis and checks further exploratory correlations between conflict axis and structure axis using the SDQ (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire). The diagnostic method presented here enables a reliable evaluation of the conflict axis and the structure axis. Moreover, correlations occur between the OPD-CA-2 axes and the SDQ.