A ESQUIZOFRENIA SOB A PERSPECTIVA DOS PRINCÍPIOS DA ANÁLISE DO COMPORTAMENTO

Abstract

The main intention of this present work was to investigate the behavior of a person diagnosticated with chronic squizophrenia and mental retard in a psychiatric context, in a private unit partners with SUS. Due to this work principles of the Behavior Analyses Applied were used. The participant was a female person, 57 years old, single, semi-illiterate, who came from a low economic family and who had already been admitted to many institutions specialized in psychiatric treatments, since 18 years old. The participant s choice was a result of many marked facts in her life, since her adolescence. Direct observations of the participant s behaviors and interviews with the nursery staff and doctors allowed important information. Through these information, it was possible to collect subsidies which collaborated on identifying the problematic-behaviors which were registered in Observations Formularies and Registration Sheets. Seven problematic-behaviors classes were selected to suffer intervention as, an example, maintain eye contact, remain isolated and sat on a bench in the patio, participate in events from the institution etc. To control the procedures the Reversion Delineation type ABAB, followed by Follow-up was used. The delineation was started with the collection of information from the Base line I. The followings were sections in Interventions´ stages I and II. In the interventions procedures of positive reinforcement, modeling and extinction were used. The results demonstrate that the procedures from the Behavior Analyses Applied were effective to control the problematic-behavior from the participant. The results were discussed in terms of applied methodology, from the effects reached and the linking from information and theory. After concluding the research part, the behavior modifications from the participant were considerable, and are results of the procedures from which she was submitted.