
Paternal personality as a prognostic factor in the treatment for antisocial tendency
2012; UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO; Volume: 22; Issue: 51 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1982-4327
AutoresValéria Barbieri, Jamila de Godoy Pavelqueires,
Tópico(s)Psychological Testing and Assessment
ResumoMost studies addressing the importance of the family environment on children's emotional development and psychological treatment associate the characteristics of the mother's personality with the child's pathology, disregarding the characteristics of the father's personality. Therefore, this study's objective was to investigate the personality characteristics of fathers of children with antisocial tendencies by means of the psychodiagnosis interventive method and to investigate the potential relationship of such characteristics to the treatment results obtained for children. Six fathers of seven children were evaluated by the Rorschach test. Follow-up of the cases indicated five therapeutic successes and two failures. The paternal personality characteristics associated with success included the absence of severe impairment in the test of reality, control of impulses, and interpersonal relationships, in addition to a neurotic organization of personality. The results show the importance of including information concerning the father's personality when prescribing therapies and establishing prognoses. Resumo: A maior parte dos estudos, sobre a importância do ambiente familiar no desenvolvimento emocional e no tratamento psicologico de criancas, busca associar as caracteristicas da mae a patologia da crianca, em detrimento da figura do pai. Tendo isso em vista, este estudo teve como objetivo investigar as caracteristicas de personalidade de pais de criancas com tendencia antissocial, submetidas ao psicodiagnostico interventivo, e sua possivel relacao com os resultados terapeuticos dos filhos. Seis pais de sete criancas foram avaliados pelo Teste de Rorschach, e o follow-up dos casos indicou a ocorrencia de cinco sucessos e dois fracassos terapeuticos. As caracteristicas paternas associadas ao sucesso foram ausencia de comprometimentos severos no teste da realidade, controle pulsional e relacionamentos interpessoais, alem de uma organizacao neurotica de personalidade. Sendo assim, os resultados mostram a importância de incluir informacoes sobre a personalidade paterna na realizacao de indicacao terapeutica de criancas e na proposicao de prognosticos.
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