Múltiplas condições de controle no comportamento de uma pessoa com diagnóstico de esquizofrenia em comunidade evangélica.

Abstract

The resent study aimed to analyze functionally verbal behavior of a person diagnosed as schizophrenic, a member of the evangelical community. The participant, female, 41 years old, married, born in Maranhão state, had a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia and with a history of four admissions to psychiatric institutions. To control procedures were employed indirect functional assessment through interviews, functional assessment by direct observation of behavior, functional evaluation experimental design alternate treatment of type ABCA, use of DRA, followed by follow-up. The experimental design of multiple conditions has been subdivided into four main conditions: (1) attention condition, (2) demand conditions, (3) condition alone, and (4) control condition. The condition attention was subdivided into four sub-conditions: (1) attention-question, (2) attention collusion, (3) attention reprimand and (4) attentiontemple. The results confirmed that the social care exercised control over verbal behavior inappropriate. They also demonstrated the effectiveness of treatment in reducing behavioral analytic and even remission of inappropriate speech and bizarre behavior of the participant. The results also showed that the condition attention and attentiontemple- reproach had the highest number of inappropriate speech. In all conditions was performed functional analysis of verbal behavior of the participant.