Estilos de crianza en un niño con trastorno negativista desafiante proveniente de una familia monoparental.

Abstract

The single-parent family occurs in non-traditional households formed by a single parent, either a father or a mother, who takes care, of one or more children. The research presented analyzes the parenting styles that prevail in a single-parent family with a child with an oppositional defiant disorder, which stand out the importance of the issue in the affective and educational development of the infant. Well, most of the time families’ dynamics are not adequate, causing the child more comorbidities in the disorder that it presents. Based on these foregoing the following scientific problem was limited: What parenting style prevails in a child with the oppositional defiant disorder from a single-parent family? For its solution, it proposed the general objective: To determine the parenting style of a child with a defiant disorder who comes from a single-parent family, through the case study method. The categories analyzed in this case study were parenting styles, oppositional defiant disorder, single-parent families. The present investigation is about a nine-year-old boy. He resides in the canton "El Guabo" with a single-parent family. This research was carried out through a qualitative study, which was made use of the following techniques and instruments, having as main an epistemological approach which helped us to contrast the theoretical framework in which theories related to the research topic were investigated, where emphasizes the parenting styles, the individual's disorder and the single-parent family, as part of the methodology implements a questionnaire about the different parenting styles, in which it determines the parenting style that the mother of the family implements at home with his son, projective tests of the family, allows to verify the behavior of the minor as the degree of importance, attachment that is the family for him, a questionnaire on the family dynamics for the son, this questionnaire is in charge of collaborating as is communication in the single-parent family, structured interview this technique is responsible for collecting information to then analyze them and direct observation technique of the case. The results showed that the parenting styles are countless actions acquired by the parents, who are the main and the first protagonists in educating their children for life, depending on the parenting style implemented at home. This case study analyzed a permissive-negligent parenting style. Generally, these parents tend to be submerged by other commitments that have nothing to do with their children, neglecting their parental responsibility. These parents are characterized by not getting involved in their children's affairs as well as disengagement in the educational part of their children, leaving them to do. What they want as long as they do not disturb them with their existence, in many cases as long as they do not bother them they underestimate them by buying them gifts and in another case with blows without explaining why.