Gestion des émotions chez les enfants TDA/H : une cible nécessaire pour les thérapies cognitives et comportementales ?

Although CBT is useful in the treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), it is not presently clear whether the management of stress and emotions should be a preferential target of therapy. In this study, 80 children aged 7 to 15 (40 ADHD and 40 normal controls) participated in an assessment of their emotions and stress reactivity in daily life, using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). The results do not indicate a deregulation in the experience of emotions in ADHD children compared to normal controls, nor abnormalities in stress reactivity. Treatment should continue to address the emotional well-being in this population, but therapeutic advances do not appear to require attention to more fundamental problems in emotional regulation.