espanolLa Dermatitis Atopica (DA) es una enfermedad de la piel con caracter cronico, que va incrementando su prevalencia a nivel mundial y cuya manifestacion se relaciona con la sensibilidad exagerada ante agentes que producen inflamacion a causa de factores geneticos o historias familiares de alergias. El tratamiento psicologico de la DA involucra en su gran mayoria tecnicas empleadas en Terapia Cognitiva-Conductual como: relajacion, inversion al habito, reduccion del estres, autocontrol, entre otras, que sin duda han demostrado efectividad en el manejo de dicha enfermedad dermatologica. EnglishThe Atopic Dermatitis (AD) is a chronicle skin disease which has increased its prevalence across the World; this disease is related with hyper sensibility to some agents which produce inflammation. Some genetic factors or familiar history of allergies are related with this disease. Psychological treatment of AD includes some Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques as relaxation, habit reversal, stress reduction, self-control, among others, which have showed effectiveness for its treatment.