Clinical case: cognitive-behavioral treatment in conducts of extreme aggressiveness in the classroom

Abstract

One of the most important problems with which they find the educational institutions in the last years is that of the violence in the classrooms. In this work we present a study of case, according to the classification proposed by Montero and León (2002), in that we will realize a tour across the treatment followed successfully by Raúl, a 15-year-old young person, student of 1st of E.S.O. who was presenting behaviors of extreme  aggressiveness against his companions of course, and to that there was diagnosed an explosive intermittent disorder. Derived to the Service of Psychological External Attention (SAPE), the selected treatment consisted of a clinical intervention, of cognitive-behavioral orientation, with a total duration of 15 meetings. After the application of the above mentioned treatment there were achieved the therapeutic marked aims, there being eliminated the violent and disruptive behaviors, which have not returned to appear one year after the ending of the treatment, date up to which one has taken a follow-up, without intervention, of the patient.