Our intervention in this area is based on a fundamental assumption: we avoid treating children directly.

We have realized that in most cases direct treatment with children with behavioural problems became an attempted solution that made things worse rather than helped to solve problems.

From our point of view, this is due to the self-fulfilling-prophecy process that is triggered when a child is brought and kept in therapy.

In other words, when we make children come to therapy, we will be communicating to them that there is something wrong with them.

This is the starting point of a pathological prophecy which the child and parents usually begin to believe in. If the parents and the child start believing that there is something pathological in the child’s behaviour, they will begin to behave accordingly, as if this were real, and probably end up fulfilling it.

Therefore, when dealing with children’s behavioural problems, we choose to intervene in an indirect way by guiding the parents and sometimes even teachers to put into action certain manoeuvres specifically devised to break the problematic behavioural patterns that maintain the situation, successfully intervening on the most frequent child pathologies:

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

• Provocative-Oppositional behaviour

• Elective Mutism

• Avoidance

• Anxiety

• Phobias