Transtorno do pânico: investigação sobre alterações de relato em terapia analítico-comportamental.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

Panic Disorder is one of the most frequent and incapability problems among anxiety disturbing, representing one of major reasons people look for health support in Brazil and in world. The Behavior Analyses Therapy constitutes a treatment propose with very satisfactory results, focusing on the relation between clients felt and described symptoms and the operation contingencies, of which his/her behavior means the functions. The fully removal of symptoms (private events described by client) may occur since contingencies changing. The goal of this present work is to verify the changing occurrence from a verbal report of a client (25 years old) diagnosed with Panic Disorder by a psychiatrist. The changes occurred were verbalizations on auto-analyses and symptom descriptions for observation report and description of the relation among behavior/symptoms/environment, creating an initial strategy for psychotherapy treatment of such disorder. First eleven psychotherapy sessions were recorded and transcribed, and verbalizations were divided into categories by three independent judges - categories of client verbalization: Symptom, Environment, Behavior, Symptom/ Environment, Others; and functional categories of therapist verbalizations: Information, Investigation, Feedback, Advice/Rule, Interpretations, Others. Results have demonstrated as an answer for therapy intervention an important decrease on client verbalization frequency concerning category of symptom and an increase on category concerning symptom/environment. Those results contribute with clinical practice based on Radical Behaviorism philosophy, by demonstrating, in a natural clinical situation, that client behavior statement is selected (by therapist), as any other behavior, following the behavior concept as a result of environmental concern.

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comportamento verbal panic disorder psicologia transtorno do pânico terapia analítico-comportamental verbal behavior behavior analytic-therapy

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