Behavioral Disorders: Biodecoding and Treatment

Those behavioral problems considered mild do not require a psychotherapeutic intervention, parental work supported and advised by the psychologist is enough to achieve a correct mastery of the contingenciesuse of techniques reinforcement, etc. When the problems are of a wide spectrum and incidence, parental work must be complemented with direct treatment with the child or adolescent, both in the diagnostic and intervention stages.

The behavioral disorders they usually appear as a result of the interaction of different types of psychobiological predisposition with stressful environments. Autoregulation of the autonomic nervous system and metabolic problems related to certain substances can trigger aggression, as well as higher than normal testosterone levels. Regarding environmental factors, abuses and child abuse they have a high level of correlation, as well as the existence of affective deficiencies, abandonment, delinquency and parental abuse.

The clinical diagnostic picture usually presents one or more of the following behavioral characteristics, with permanence and continuity:

  • Aggressiveness
  • Violation of social norms
  • Lack of sensitivity to the feelings of others
  • Inappropriate character for his age
  • Impulsiveness
  • manipulative character
  • Lack of appropriate response to rewards or punishment

As the most common triggering and/or associated factors, we can describe the following:

  • Early onset of conduct disorders
  • ADHD presence
  • Deficit of educational guidelines in the family
  • Absence of adequate reference points in the family
  • Presence of drugs or alcohol in the family
  • Prolonged absences of parents or guardians
  • Low economic and socio-cultural level
  • Child Abuse and Maltreatment
  • Violence and abuse in the immediate environment
  • Criminal behavior in the family
  • cognitive problems
  • Frontal lobe pathologies
  • Borderline IQ
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The most common symptoms present in behavioral problems range from simple disobedience to physical aggression, including verbal insults, contempt for people, bullying, or violence against street and home furniture.

Diagnosis and treatment of conduct disorders

The correct diagnosis of conduct disorders requires the evaluation and functional analysis of the problem behavior or behaviors that the child or adolescent presents, through interviews with the affected parents. The interview with the parents or guardians is essential, at the beginning of the diagnosis, to carry out a correct qualification of the problem and obtain the commitment and involvement of the parents during the therapeutic process, without which the intervention may be sterile.

Likewise, the initial interviews with the child or adolescent, where he will provide us with his point of view, will allow us to analyze his behavior and obtain information on the consequences derived from the behavior. disruptive behavioras well as its frequency and intensity. Collaterally, and without the treatment having begun, the dialogue and self-observation of the child or adolescent during the interview will allow them to gain self-awareness of the problem and its consequences.

Psychotherapy is the most effective treatment in the intervention and treatment of behavioral problems, although it may be necessary to complement it in the most serious cases with pharmacological treatment. The objective of the psychological intervention is the improvement of all the aspects related to the abilities communicative and social, seeking the modification of disruptive and/or aggressive behavior.

In our clinical centers of de Madrid and de la , in Las Rozas, Pozuelo, Villalba, Torrelodones, Galapagar, Boadilla, Majadahonda and El Escorial, we treat the most common mental disorders and disorders, through the application of third-generation therapeutic techniques and advanced psychotherapy of , based on Cognitive-Behavioral and adapted to the current sociocultural reality of our children and adolescents, establishing routines and disciplines in harmony with the patient’s life and environment, reducing the anguish caused by the disorder in him, his family and the social environment and allowing him to develop and fully integrate, thus achieving the maximum quality of life and that of his close circle.

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Conversational Cognitive-Behavioral therapy with the patient will not be easy, since these children and adolescents are used to the fact that their verbal exchanges are usually carried out in a conflictivewith permanent opposition to the interlocutors, hindering the establishment of common contextual bases and, as a consequence of this, making it impossible to build a common frame of reference for both parties and disabling the therapeutic alliance patient-psychologist.