Estudio de caso: factores psicológicos que motiva al adolescente a recaer en el consumo de drogas

Abstract

The present research work aims to identify the psychological factors that motivate the adolescent to fall back on drug use, analyzed from the cognitive-behavioral approach that considers that behavior is formed through experience, developing learning in construction of the bases of cognitive behavior based on the relationship of learning succession and the formation of behavior patterns. Under the perception of the case study, each of these effects was reviewed in a detailed and exploratory manner, in order to assimilate the main parameters of the topic, psychological factors that motivate the adolescent to fall back on drug use, where the factors are reviewed psychological as a result of the combination of emotions with attitudes, presented by the subject influenced by their socio-family environment that making it fall into addictive behaviors, motivation in the study of motivational aspects or attitudes that define good or bad alternatives that persist in taking of important decisions of intrinsic or extrinsic form, which has a close link with their self-esteem, positively or negatively in the search for desires of overcoming and perseverance or in the formation of bad habits and relapse in the subject as an aspect of a chronic nature It affects the physical and emotional health of the adolescent due to the return to drug use. It was allowed to establish the emotional, family and social links of the subject studied, which led him to fall in consumption since the age of 16. This research is carried out through a qualitative methodology through techniques such as, Semi-structured interview consisting of a series of open questions, observation sheet, and clinical history analysis, which allowed collecting and examining the data obtained, through narrative and descriptive dissertation. The case study was carried out at the Velasco Ibarra Type C Health Center in Machala Canton, Province of El Oro belonging to the 07D02 health district and was especially directed at a teenager, beneficiary of the Intensive Ambulatory Service SAI program, which presents adequate characteristics such as age, active consumption that also reference several relapses for analysis, where the results obtained allowed to demonstrate that the lack of parental affective relationships, lifestyle and parenting, would be the main motivating factors for relapse, reaching to the conclusion that the case analysis of the patient beneficiary of the Intensive Ambulatory Service SAI program helped to better understand the process of drug use, by identifying psychological factors, motivation and relapse as characteristic components of cognitive behavioral treatment to achieve the objectives within this psychoses process therapeutic, in turn recommending that professionals working with adolescents in the UPS program focus their attention on psychological factors during the recovery process, because they are flexible and can lead to relapses. . The present case study is of professional interest in the area of clinical psychology since it carries out an investigative intervention directly to the drug-consuming subject.