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- Title
Funciones ejecutivas en los adolescentes farmacodependientes de 12 a 16 años en diferentes fases del proceso de rehabilitación.
- Authors
Castro Gutiérrez, Eileen Yisett; Vargas, Heidy Johanna; Chima Guerrero, Manuel María; Zapata Sierra, Paula Andrea; Klimenko, Olena
- Abstract
Executive functions are important for an efficient and adaptive performance in the human being and ensures success in many areas of human performance, such as academic and labor activity, interpersonal relationships, among others. It has been shown that the consumption of psychoactive substances affects the executive performance, generating, such a consequences, the conditions conducive to the progressive development of addictive behavior and relapses. It is important to focus attention on cognitive rehabilitation during the additions treatment process. The present quantitative and descriptive study was aimed to identify the characteristics of cognitive performance related to some of executive functions, memory and decision making in three groups of addicted adolescents that are in three different phases of treatment (initial, intermediate and final), with purpose to identify the presence of changes or advances in their executive functions. It was used the ENI-Infant Neuropsychological Evaluation Battery (Maute, Rosselli, Ardila, Ostrosky-Solís, 2009) and the Spanish adaptation of the Decision making/Problem solving subscale of Life-skills Development Scale for Adolescents (Darden, Ginter and Gazda, 1996). The results showed a progressive improvement in most of all evaluated items, standing out the increase in scores of planning and organizing of own behavior and decision making, these are psychic functions of great importance for the process of rehabilitation in additions and prevention of relapses.
- Publication
Psicoespacios, 2017, Vol 11, Issue 19, p3
- ISSN
2145-2776
- Publication type
Article