THE 20TH CENTURY, THE CENTURY OF THE CHILD: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC APPROACH FOR THE TAKING CHARGE OF CHILDREN WITH MENTAL DISORDER IN ITALY.

The 20th century, is considered the century of the child because in this period society began to recognize the need to undertake measures aimed at the valorization of disabled children, starting to consider assistance and education as an indispensable duty of the social function. The goal of this work is to bring out the Italian contribution developed in this century that led to the recognition of psychopathology in the age of development ensuring the right to the protection of those who in the past were called abnormal children This contribution emerges throught one of the most important journals “Infanzia Anormale” [Abnormal Childhood] dedicated to the study of psychopathology in childhood, highlighting the construction of models and theories by psychiatrists and psychologists of the time that contributed to the development of scientific approach that has promoted the taking charge of children with mental disorders.