La hiperactividad infantilPrincipales enfoques terapéuticos

Abstract

Nowadays hyperactivity is considered one of the most frequent disorders within the clinical population of school children between 3 and 15% in normal schoolchildren and about 50% in clinical samples. The symptoms which identify this disorder: attention deficit, excesive motor activity and impulsivity, have very direct negative consequences on the child's adjustment behavior and on his school performance. The complexity of both the etiology and the syntomatic manifestations of this problem has generated different explanatory models of hyperactivity from which the several therapeutical approaches are derived for their treatment: pharmachological, behavioral and cognitive. The advantages and inconvénients of the exclusive utilization of the different strategies of intervention included in each of the approaches, together with a global and integrating vision of all psychological problems obliges us, in a final instance, to adopt multimodal and integrative therapeutic procedures in which the existing therapies are used interdisciplinarily.