Comunicación asertiva y estilos de crianza en un niño de 7 años con TDAH

Abstract

The research was conducted at the Rómulo Vidal Zea School in the city of Machala, El Oro Province, on a 7-year-old student who is diagnosed by the District Inclusion Support Unit (UDAI), which identifies the presence of ADHD; with the purpose of improving assertive communication and parenting styles inside and outside the home. The name ADHD is based on the first writings on a work called "An investigation into the nature and origin of mental derangement" by the Scotsman Alexander Crichton in 1798. In this work Crichton outlined the signs of what today is known as ADHD. Because assertive communication is the fundamental basis for promoting a good relationship between student-teacher and encouraging them to a better formation of habits within the educational autonomy, including the development of skills and capabilities of Good Living, while the parenting style influences the behavior of children because they are attitudes which parents take at the time of responding to a feeling. With the objective of analyzing the influence of assertive communication in the parenting style of a 7-year-old child with ADHD, reviewing bibliographic sections of different authors who have addressed this issue. The study was carried out representing the cognitive behavioral approach as a tool which helps to modify thoughts and behaviors in different variables, to strengthen cognitive development, which includes activities directed through cognitive functioning including memory exercises, language, executive functions through a stimulation program. The research design will be descriptive in nature as it helps to identify the characteristics of the child with ADHD and its environment, due to what is stated in the object of study, answers will be found to questions of data analysis to be carried out on a student with ADHD. One of the categories in this research process is assertive communication and parenting style which refers to sets of indispensable strategies for intellectual development in a child with ADHD, emphasizing that in every family of which a person with a disability is part, a negative emotional impact is created by not understanding in the best way the results of a first diagnosis. In order to approach the case study and the aforementioned problem, the following techniques and instruments were used, based on a psycho-pedagogical model, to analyze the influence of assertive communication in the parenting style of a child with ADHD, such as the observation guide, the interview and the Goodenoug test. The results obtained from this research have allowed to analyze the influence of assertive communication in the parenting style of a 7-year-old child with ADHD; the respective analysis of each instrument will be carried out in relation to the study variables which are: Assertive communication and parenting style so that it can be evidenced which are the points of conflict of the subject, detecting that the assertive communication of the infant is not correct within the home and classifying an authoritarian parenting style, corroborating as a result an IQ of 45 which is identified in a category of Medium Deficient, this indicates that its overall development is below its chronological period. In such a way that the infant's motor and logical reasoning is not appropriate, due to the great variety of erroneous answers.