Estrés en madres de niños con TDAH y los recursos personales para su afrontamiento: estudio de casos.

Abstract

Mothers of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD in the course of their lives have experienced demanding situations that lead to symptoms associated with stress, currently accentuating, due to the characteristics of the diagnosis of their children, however, it is foresees the existence of personal capacities that help to regulate it. The objective of this research was to analyze stress in mothers of children with ADHD and the resources for coping with it. The epistemological approach of Positive Psychology has been considered as a fundamental basis, which has stood out from other models to address mental health regarding stress, this through personal resources. The study has been prepared using the qualitative approach with a hermeneutic phenomenological design, which will allow interpreting the experiences of the participants, with a non-probabilistic-homogeneous sample. The sample consisted of 2 mothers, the first with a boy and the second with a girl, the two cases diagnosed with ADHD, those parents and caregivers perceived stress throughout their life cycle and, currently, during parenting of their children, such patterns have been evidenced. The mothers reside in the province of El Oro in Ecuador, their children were studying school in educational institutions in the city of Machala, being an inclusion criterion that the infants are less than 12 years old.