Behavior classes of behavior-analytic practices on depressive behaviors identified in literature

Authors

  • Patricia El Horr de Moraes Universidade Federal de São Carlos
  • Gabriel Gomes de Luca Universidade Federal do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31505/rbtcc.v20i2.1025

Keywords:

depression, depressive behaviors, clinical practice, behavior-analytic psychotherapy

Abstract

The professional practice of a psychotherapist is constituted by a set of behavior classes that involve characterizing intervention needs, planning, performing, evaluating, improving the intervention, and reporting the findings. The purpose of this study was to identify behavior classes of the professional practice of a behavior-analytic therapist when working with depressive behaviors in the clinical context. Three sources of information were selected (two articles and a book chapter), and eight steps were taken to identify behavior classes and categorize them according to general classes of a clinical intervention. A total of 399 behavior classes names were proposed, with the majority (98%) constituting the general classes “Characterizing needs”, “Planning intervention”, and “Executing intervention”. The proposition of behavior classes increases the probability of their development in formal contexts of teaching. The lack of representativeness of other general classes suggests that producing knowledge about the processes that constitute them is warranted.

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Author Biographies

Patricia El Horr de Moraes, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Mestrado em Psicologia em andamento pela UFSCAR e graduação em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná

Gabriel Gomes de Luca, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Doutor em Psicologia pela UFSC, 2013. Professor do Departamento de Psicologia e do Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

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Published

2018-08-06

How to Cite

El Horr de Moraes, P., & Gomes de Luca, G. (2018). Behavior classes of behavior-analytic practices on depressive behaviors identified in literature. Brazilian Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, 20(2), 53–75. https://doi.org/10.31505/rbtcc.v20i2.1025

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2018)

Section

Artigos Conceituais

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