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Analysis of the verbal response
of the fantasy as an intervention procedure in children behavior
therapy. Jaíde Aparecida Gomes Regra Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Radical Behaviorism considers that private events are relevant to clinical practice and that they have to be taken into account in a behavior analysis, even in an inferred way. (Skinner, 1982). However, the verbal response about covert events (thoughts, feelings and dreams), once considered another behavior of this response class, lead us to infer about the private events. Skinner (1957) introduced the functional analysis of verbal behavior using an interpretation exercise based in available laboratory data. This work produced progress in clinical practice. Recent advancements in basic research about stimuli equivalence allowed us to differ the analysis of those behaviors that are learned by the direct contact with the contingency from those that emerge without explicit training, by relations of derived stimuli. These emergent relations have been called stimuli equivalence (Sidman, 1971, 1994; Sidman & Tailby, 1982). The analysis of the verbal response about a fantasy of a child attempts to develop an interpretation exercise of the verbal interactions during the psychotherapy session, making use of the verbal behavior analysis progress because of the researches about conditional relations and stimuli classes emergency. Keywords: verbal behavior, functional analysis, conditional relations, derived stimuli relations, classes emergency |
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