Background:

behavioral disorders are a health problem that requires multidisciplinary action between institutions from different fields of knowledge. Its treatment through the study of cases as a detailed, descriptive and holistic method of research enables the effective diagnosis of it and also it is a guide towards a comprehensive treatment for its solution.

Objective:

to evaluate the effectiveness of the case study method in the diagnosis and treatment for conduct disorders.

Methods:

a descriptive study was conducted in Santa Clara municipality during February 2018. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis method, inductive-deductive method and historical-logical method; empirical methods: documentary analysis method, life history method, participant observation method, key informant interview, family members interview and the case study method.

Results:

the methods we used made possible to obtain a preventive diagnosis from the detailed analysis of the psycho-pedagogical and psychosocial characteristics of the child, who was prescribed as sufferer of dissociative identity disorder enhanced and generated by patterns, codes and antisocial styles assumed from friendship circles, with an unfavorable prognosis.

Conclusions:

the effectiveness of the case study method in the diagnosis and treatment for conduct disorders was evaluated since it made possible to identify the potentialities of the subject's environment to face this problem and those inherent in him and his family, and the development of strategies that contribute to success in terms of civic behavior in accordance with the Cuban social project.

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