Methodological Strategies for Functional Analysis and Evaluation of Obsessivecompulsive Behavior

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Paola Esposito de Moraes
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Ortega, Carolina Machado, Meletti, Helena Duran, Neto, João Manoel Rodrigues, Santos, Weslem Martins
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/12025
• topic: Análise de Comportamento; Análise Funcional; Transtorno Obsessivo-Compulsivo (TOC); Avaliação Funcional Indireta; Avaliação Funcional Descritiva; análisis del comportamiento; Análisis Funcional; astorno Obsesivo- Compulsivo (TOC); Evaluación Funcional Indirecta; Evaluación Funcional Descriptiva; Behavioral Analysis; Functional Analysis; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD); Indirect Behavior Assessment; Descriptive Behavior Assesment

The study aimed to identify the controlling variables of obsessive-compulsive behaviors of an adult participant, based on three evaluation strategies. For the first one, Indirect Functional Assessment, the researchers recovered records of therapy sessions attended by the participant, in which conditions favorable to obsessive-compulsive behaviors were described. For the second one, Descriptive Functional Assessment, the researchers observed the participant’s behavior during sessions in which they presented tasks previously mentioned as triggering of the problem behavior. For the third one, Brief Functional Analysis – Single Function Test, the researchers manipulated a demand condition and a control condition, aiming to examine the functional hypothesis that the problem behavior would be maintained by escape/avoidance of tasks. Although dissonant, the results allowed the researchers to discard the negative reinforcement hypothesis. It is discussed the pertinence of the adoption of different evaluation strategies for clinical practice and the frailties of interventions guided only by verbal reports.