Diagnosis of childhood: what are the possible implications?

This article aimed to address the specificities of the diagnostic process in psychopathology in childhood from a literature review. At first, there was a theoretical basis on how psychoanalysis conceives diagnosis, contrasting with the medical perspective. Subsequently, reflected on how this thinking process in childhood, considering its particularities. Finally, were discussed the repercussions of the diagnostic act so peculiar in that period, taking as inspiration clippings practice in clinical psychology and school linking them with the theoretical findings. Anyway, it was discussed about the excessive prescriptions perceived today, but also about the possible effects that may arise in the spaces where the child circulates: their family environment, school and social.