Trastorno de conversión pediátrico: estado del conocimiento

Helping the patient and family to understand and accept the diagnosis should be the first step in the management of paediatric conversion disorder. The second step is to educate both patients and their families about the true nature of the symptoms. Paediatricians and child and adolescents psychiatrists should be able to use elements that configure a non-punitive approach to these patients and avoid direct confrontations, which could be responsible for therapeutic abandonment by the affected patients and their families.