Intervención en una crisis del desarrollo: el nacimiento de un hijo [Intervention in a development crisis: a child's birth] | Zendy

Ana Magaz | Zendy; Víctor M. González Sánchez | Zendy

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Intervención en una crisis del desarrollo: el nacimiento de un hijo [Intervention in a development crisis: a child's birth]

Author(s) -

Ana Magaz,

Víctor M. González Sánchez

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

acción psicológica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2255-1271

pISSN - 1578-908X

DOI - 10.5944/ap.3.1.500

Subject(s) - feeling , anxiety , psychology , intervention (counseling) , crisis intervention , depression (economics) , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics

Pregnancy and the prospect of parenthood are transitional stages in development which can lead to a crisis in certain individuals. This paper presents the treatment given to a 35-yearold man diagnosed as having Hypochondria and Mixed Adjustment Disorder with anxiety and depression, whose symptoms began when he got to know he was about to become a father. Therapy was given in a course of 18 sessions with the following main objectives: to tackle the feelings triggered by the new situation, to control this situation cognitively, and to develop new strategies to deal with the situation and make a suitable use of bis external resources. To achieve these objectives, some cognitive-behaviourist techniques were applied. The results assessed after the treatment, by means of pretests and post-tests, clearly showed that symptoms had subsided and the patient's personal resources had been strengthened and optimised.

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