Experience of therapy group to parents of children with attention deficit disorder

Abstract

The Developmental Disorders Program mental health center San Joaquin, of the Catholic University of Chile, due to its high demand of attention for patiens with DDA, decided to design and implement a workshop for parents with children with Deficit Disorder Attention (DDA), as a complement estrategy of intervention to the workshop in wich their children participate. The objectives of the parental intervention were educated in psychological subjets, regarding the understanding of their children´s disorder and the development of management strategies, and in turn, promote adherence and commitment to the treatment of their children. This experiment was conducted in the years 2007 and 2008, through six theoretical and practical sessions, which revealed little distinction between the parental and the filial system, difficulties in the development of autonomy, concerns about the parenting role and feelings of exclusion from the treatment of their son. This intervention promoted a decrease in the sense of exclusion of parents also enabled better diagnosis and development of optimized on-call time for individual consultations.