The use of emotional-stress psychotherapy in decompensation of oppositional-defiant disorder among children, manifested by protest or infantile encopresis

Abstract

One of the most striking examples of decompensation of oppositional-defiant disorder among children is encopresis (protest or infantile). Most often it represents a primitive hysterical reaction connected with its “conditional desirability” as a mean of liberation from any difficult situation for the child, which requires a fundamentally different approach in therapy. In encopresis treatment of an inorganic nature as well as other forms of behavioural, neurotic or psychosomatic protest there are rational, behavioural, family, play and suggestive therapy used together or separately. However, these methods are more effective in combination with emotional-stress psychotherapy used to a certain degree as early as possible.

Keywords

• oppositional defiant disorder
• encopresis
• infantile encopresis
• protest encopresis
• psychosomatic protest
• psychotherapy
• emotional stress psychotherapy