The psychological evaluation of voluntary activity from Historical-Cultural Psychology: the instruments developed in Mexico

Abstract

One of the complaints that comes to the school and educational psychologist is about children with issues on controlling their own behavior. For this reason, the professional is charged with performing a psychological assessment to diagnose difficulties, but many of these evaluations carry out a diagnostic in a way that labels the child without, therefore, contributing to its development. Considering that the theoretical-methodological apparatus of historical-cultural psychology allows the understanding of human development as a social order, we discuss how to evaluate children based on this theory. Thus, this article, which is part of a Master thesis, it presents a voluntary activity evaluation instrument developed by the Maestría en Diagnóstico y Rehabilitación Neuropsicológica (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla - Puebla, México) from the neuropsychology and historical-cultural psychology. It is expected that the research will contribute to instrumentalize school and educational psychologists to face the increasing diagnostic labels and to support future researches.

Keywords:
Psychological evaluation; Historical-Cultural Psychology; childhood development