O outro lado do processo terapêutico: o que terapeutas comportamentais aprendem atendendo

Abstract

For Behavioral Analytic Therapy, psychotherapy is focused on expanding the client's repertoire so that he/she is better equipped to deal with everyday problems. Inevitably, the therapist also enlarges as a result of interaction with the client. The aim of this study was to identify what and how behavioral therapists learn throughout their clinical experiences in relation to their clients. A study was developed with 14 behavioral therapists, through semistructured changes, to understand the therapist's learning with the client. The method was based on the Analysis of Grounded Theory.The results suggest that clinical care and the relationship with clients influence the therapist's training and teach the professional not only about clinical practice, as well as aspects for your personal life. Working with the client is an opportunity to learn and this learning drives the therapist's professional development. It was observed that learning is bilateral (therapist-client), gradual and cumulative and interacts with the theoretical adherence of the therapist, with the challenge that the therapist encounters in the case, with the parallels that the therapist draws with his own life, with the continuous study of the therapist and with the supervision in which he engages. This learning reverberates in the professional's clinical practice, clarifying the coordinates of the therapeutic process, when the therapist learns about the uniqueness of each client, about the client's responsibility for their progress, about their responsibility as a therapist and about their limitations as a therapist. It also sharpens your clinical skills. The therapist learns to see beyond labels and judgments, the posture to take as a therapist, to be flexible and authentic. Behavioral therapists also improve their clinical strategies by learning to make room for the client, respect the client's time, and respond to the client's needs. It improves the management of risks and annoyances that involve proximity to the client, takes advantage of misconceptions in favor of therapy and improves the way it handles fee collection. The therapist's learning was also observed extrapolating the clinical context, also taught to the therapist's personal life about self-management in the relationship with the other: accepting without judging, understanding the singularities and respecting the other's time. He also taught about selfmanagement in the relationship with you: being tolerant and flexible, broaden their perspectives on human resilience and on themselves, put their family relationships and their own issues into perspective. The client teaches about remanence in the daily repertoire in adopting topography/client behavior and expanding culture. Thus, the client is an active 10 participant in the training of therapists and also influences aspects of the professional's personal life