O Processo Psicoterapêutico dentro do Behaviorismo Um Estudo Descritivo e Exploratório

Abstract

Anxiety is a basic emotion experienced by the human. When negative it removes of the person the control of his emotion, and more than that, promoter behavioral disfunctions that causes new harmful contingencies of the most several types of defects of the human didacticism, in other words, emotional disturbance. In a private way, its consequences are directly connected to physiologic responses that are harmful and uncomfortable. In a public way, the consequences can be observed through the symptoms of the several disturbances caused by anxiety. Many published works present treatment programs and control of negative anxiety. The great majority search the accessibility of the private events and the hidden events for the effective control of the harmful contingencies as it is the case specially of those that use instruments of the behavioral and cognitive therapy. All of them face great difficulties: to lead with the subjectivity of the emotion. It was possible to study empirically the privacy of the events that cause anxiety, not only in public consequences, through the spoken repertory: emotional, voicer and textual. In this way, this work is innovative when its purpose was to study the relation between the research and clinical en applied. It still evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of the therapeutic writing, that added to other techniques of control of responses to anxiety, in the functioning of disconnected behaviors, maintained by an intense anxiety picture, cause by anxiety disturbances. Haring for focus the No-Sent Letters as a way of functioning concealed and dysfunctional behaviors. Secondarily it is focalized in the diaries of registration, as indispensable instruments for the acquisition of self-control, discrimination an definition of new and assertive repertories of public and private behaviors. The experimental control was obtained through Within-Subject Counter Balanced Design with two groups, with two participants each, directed by the psychiatry, naïve with the psychotherapeutic process and in pharmacological treatment. This study explored four experimental conditions: Base Line; Intervention, when were used four groups of techniques of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy; Evaluation and Follow up. IDATE was used in the Base Line, Evaluation and Follow up. The results showed as considerable difference between anxiety in the Base Line and in the Follow up presenting the effectiveness of the Therapeutic Writing as well as other techniques used, presented individually for participants, in a percentile and in a frequency form. Suggestions were also presented for futures studies.