Intervenção neuropsicológica para desenvolvimento de habilidades de atenção e flexibilidade cognitiva em crianças com TDAH

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Cantiere, Carla Nunes
• Orientador(a): Carreiro, Luiz Renato Rodrigues
• Banca de defesa: Capovilla, Alessandra Gotuzo Seabra , Joly, Maria Cristina Rodrigues Azevedo
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Distúrbios do Desenvolvimento
• Departamento: Psicologia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: reabilitação neuropsicológica; distúrbio do déficit de atenção com hiperatividade (TDAH); treino cognitivo; atenção
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: neuropsychological rehabilitation; ADHD; cognitive training
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/22556

According to the literature, neuropsychological intervention has demonstrated efficacy in improving cognitive functions, in the performance of daily activities and in increasing the quality of life of patients with diseases that affect the nervous system. This work aims to face an exploratory study to implement and evaluate indicators of improvement for a program of intervention for neuropsychological skills training attention and cognitive flexibility in children with signs of inattention and hyperactivity. The study included four individuals aged between 8 and 12, without intellectual deficits, and behavioral indicators of inattention and or hyperactivity, referred by their parents and teachers. The participants underwent a pre-intervention assessment, with the use of inventories of behavioral profiles, tests of voluntary, automatic and temporal attention, executive function and resistance to distraction, and speed of cognitive processing. After the initial assessment, 15 meetings were held with each participant, one a week, with an average duration of 60 minutes each day, in which activities directed to attention and cognitive flexibility were held. At the end of the intervention, participants were reassessed by the same behavioral and neuropsychological instruments and the data was compared with the pre-assessment ones. All the sessions were attended by an observer, in order to register and evaluate the intervention. For this aim, an observation protocol, to categorize targets behaviors in ADHD, was used. It was found that, in most of the studied cases, different kind of behavioral and cognitive indicators were improved, as the reduction of inattention and hyperactivity behavior and the presence of a higher number of correct answers, fewer omissions, decrease of the reaction time and continuous decline due to the interval in applied neuropsychological and computerized tests. In other words, there are important indicators of the improvement of children after the intervention, which may reflect in terms of educational development and social inclusion of the participants.