Role-playing as strategy to facilitate functional analysis in clinical context

Authors

  • Vivian Bonani de Souza UNESP Bauru
  • Natália Pinheiro Orti UNESP Bauru
  • Alessandra Turini Bolsoni-Silva UNESP Bauru

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31505/rbtcc.v14i3.551

Keywords:

functional analysis, role-playing, behavior therapy

Abstract

In behavioral therapy several techniques are used, among them the role-playing and functional analysis.Role-playing is feasible to model relevant behaviors while functional analysis is used for diagnostic evalua-tion and to produce self-knowledge. However, some clinical problems have characteristics that hinder the creation of self-knowledge, without which the client may not develop the modeling of alternative repertoires. This study aims to illustrate the combination of role-playing and functional analysis as a procedure to facilitate the development of self-awareness in clients with deficits in discrimination of functional relations and interpersonal difficulties. A session was selected from a total of 12 group meetings. The main result was the increase of self-revelations and discrimination of functional relationships by customers. It is concluded that the role-playing can be an environment to teach the client to describe functional relations and produce self-knowledge when facing interpersonal problems and difficulties on the discrimination of the actual contingencies in place

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Published

2013-05-01

How to Cite

Souza, V. B. de, Orti, N. P., & Bolsoni-Silva, A. T. (2013). Role-playing as strategy to facilitate functional analysis in clinical context. Brazilian Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, 14(3), 102–122. https://doi.org/10.31505/rbtcc.v14i3.551

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