Trastorno por Déficit de Atención con Hiperactividad. Evaluación y tratamiento psicológico

Abstract

The mentioned thesis intends: - To expose an approach theoretical -practice to the problem of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). With relationship to the historical evolution of the disorder, the definition and the description of the main symptoms and the associate disorder, the biological aspects, the techniques and evaluation instruments and the most important treatments in the ADHD. With an extensive bibliographical revision that allows to specify a theoretical mark to formulate with solid bases a program of treatment cognitive-behavioral. - To apply a program of treatment cognitive-behavioral to children with TDAH of between 8 and 12 years, with the collaboration of a center of the Department of Social Well-being and of diverse schools. The program combines technical cognitive (self-instructional, resolution of problems, self modeling, self control and self evaluation) and technical behavioral (self-reinforcement, reward and response cost). - To analyze the data after the application of the intervention program. With a design of repeated measures with three moments: pre-treatment, post-treatment and pursuit. Starting from the previous data, you can conclude that the treatment cognitive-behavioral is beneficial for the children with ADHD, but given the high heterogeneity of the symptoms that they present the children, and the repercussion that the disorder causes in the boy's social, family and personal environment, is necessary to work you gives a multimodal treatment, in which the treatment cognitive-behavioral is a treatment more and not the only alternative. "