Critérios diagnósticos do TDAH: uma revisão de literatura

• Autor(a) principal: Amaral, Larissa Maria Garib do
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15886
• topic: Transtorno de déficit de atenção e hiperatividade; Diagnóstico do TDAH; Crianças hiperativas; Disturbio do deficit de atencao com hiperatividade; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Diagnosis of ADHD; Hyperactive children's; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

This study was dedicated to a revision of the literature published in Brazil, in the period from 1999 to 2009, about the instruments used in order that been established the diagnosis of the Disorder of the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We look the protocols investigate which neuropsicológicos and scales of evaluation more used in order that the diagnosis been still established, as well as the possible differences between the predominances of the disorder as a result of the instrument of inquiry and, the personality's characteristics of the children considered hyperactive through the evaluations of projective tests, with intention of collaborating for the explanation of the diagnostic process. We check that there is a diversity of instruments of evaluation and that those bring differences in the predominance of the disorder. The tests neuropsicológicos, what examine the executive functions, appeared appropriate in the investigation of specific difficulties like selective attention, inhibitory control and flexibility and the projective tests pointed to characteristics of the psychological functioning of the children and adolescents with TDAH like feelings of anguish and difficulties in the processing of the emotions. These results point to the necessity of integration of the protocols of evaluation aiming at a global understanding of the patient with the disorder