Protocolo de intervención en el trastorno de hiperactividad en una unidad de salud mental infanto-juvenil / Protocol of intervention in the attention hiperactivity deficit disorder in an infant-juvenile unit of mental health

ABSTRACT

The Attention Hiperactivity Deficit Disorder (TDAH) constitutes a frequent derivation in the public Units ofInfant-Juvenile Mental Health. However, in many occasionsthis derivation is not accepted, being magnified thenumber of cases included under this epigraph.The diagnosis of TDAH should be made assisting tosome strict criteria and following a specific methodology.The realization of effective evaluations will be crucialto implement more effective treatments in theselevels: cognitive, emotional, comportamental, socialand school learning; being generalized the results to thetwo more habitual contexts of the children: family andschool.From the Infant-Juvenile Unit of Mental Health ofthe Psychiatric Institute José Germain, we have detectedthe necessity to establish a protocol of intervention withseveral proffesionals for our area that optimizes theevaluation and intervention in the TDAH cases, showingup in this work their main guidelines (AU)