Efeitos de contingências discriminativas sobre os repertórios social e de higiene de uma participante institucionalizada

• Autor(a) principal: Martone, Maria Carolina Corrêa
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/16789
• topic: Comportamento psicótico; Treino de habilidades sociais; Atividades da vida diária; Comportamento humano; Esquizofrenia; Psychotic behavior; Training of social skills; Training of daily life activities; Schizophrenia; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

This dissertation was developed in a Mental Health Service, taking as a case a patient with the diagnosis of schizophrenia and an extensive record of psychiatric treatment. The paper comprises two studies. Study 1 aimed at getting two response chains related to personal care (washing the hands and brushing the teeth), using as the procedure instruction, prompts and sequence of responses. The end of each sequence of responses was followed by positive social observations in the form of praise. Study 2 comprised a discriminative exercise aiming at increasing the responses to reading and talking about the material read, sequencing the responses by social reinforcement in the form of attention and extolment. At the same time incoherent and unintelligible responses were ignored. The results indicated that, in Study 1, the combination of instruction, prompts and positive reinforcement, were efficient means to modify the responses to personal care as long as the experimental conditions were maintained. In Study 2, it was found that training amplified the patient s repertoire for complex behavior like reading, at the same time reducing the frequency of incoherent and unintelligible responses. Moreover, the suspension of positive social reinforcement in the form of attention was one of the variables that controlled the patient s behavior, inducing an increase in the frequency of inadequate responses. On the other hand, it was observed that unplanned variations in the familiar milieu (altercations) substantially changed the repertoire during the training, even with the maintenance of the social consequences in the Mental Health Service