Caso José: Uma abordagem comportamental

Abstract

Jose’s case is seen in light of analytical behaviorism. It is stressed, both at psychopathological and psychotherapeutic levels, the learning process that occurs influenced by contingencies and environmental models. First and second order factors of Jose’s case, in relation to the developmental and maintenance of problematic behaviors, are discriminated. As an organized system of responses as he is conceived, it is explained the modification of a certain type of cognitions that will improve Jose’s self-efficacy, through which happens both the learning of new and more adaptative behaviors, and the unconditioning of certain emotional responses. This process will be the final consequence of changes in contingencies, both self-administered or manipulated by the therapist. It is also postulated that any process of intervention implies the alteration of the determinants mentioned so far, even if they are labeled any other way.