Avaliação funcional e psicoterapia analítico-funcional para investigar os efeitos das contingências de estresse minoritário nas respostas de homens negros homossexuais

Abstract

The objective of this study was to employ the functional evaluation process to identify the stressor events that preceded and consequenced the stress responses in two black homosexual men, that served as participants. A second goal was to intervene in the stress responses with the use of Functional Analytical Psychotherapy. The procedures were controlled by two settings: multiple condition and reversal, ABA. For this purpose it was used a) indirect functional assessment, which involved the use of interviews; b) direct functional assessment, observations of the participants' behaviors in the clinical setting and c) functional analysis (experimental) with two main conditions, attention and demand, similar to those of Iwata et al., (1982/1994). The demand condition was subdivided into two other sub-conditions. To intervene in the identified behaviors the bases of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy were employed within the Minority Stress model. The results demonstrated that the methods and techniques used were effective in the control of the participants' stress responses. It was also demonstrated the possibility of this combined application in order to assist clinical demands considering the social context, as well as contributing to fill gaps regarding the uses of behavior analysis methods and techniques for assisting demands in the minority stress context