Avaliação dos efeitos e variáveis do processo de intervenção com mães de crianças com problemas internalizantes

• Autor(a) principal: Orti, Natália Pinheiro [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/154690; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/07-03-2017/000864790.pdf
• topic: Anxiety; Ansiedade; Depressão mental; Habilidades sociais; Terapia parenteral

Internalizing problems such as anxiety and depression are related and maintained to different types of variables, including parenting practices. However, rarely parent interventions to present and treat internalizing problems are studied. This research consists of three complementary studies on this topic. A literature review was was conducted, in review was conducted, in which there were identified predictors related to the maintenance and prevention of internalizing problems concerning parenting practices and parents psychopathology. Interventions which included parents in the prevention of internalizing problems were also assessed e discussed. The second study refers to the evaluation of the effects of a semi-structural intervention conducted exclusively with mothers of internalizing children. Three clinical cases were studied from the consent of the participants. The intervention aimed to promote the development of positive parenting practices as indicated by the literature on behavioral problems, but contingently to the dificulties and demands of each case. Different reporting instruments were used at baseline, posttest and follow-up to assess the effects of the intervention procedure. The main results include the remission of internalizing problems to non-clinical level, increased frequency of children's social skills, increased frequency of positive parenting practices and reduced variability of negative parenting practices. The third study aimed to investigate variables in the clinical process that could characterize the cases through the categorization of complaints, developed content and thrapist-client interaction behaviors. The most frequent complaints of mothers were their own negative parenting practices and the contents most often developed in concern to the children were the skillful expression of positive and negative emotions by the mothers. It was found that mothers complained of undiagnosed externalizing problems and...