Aplicação da psicoterapia analítica funcional para um adolescente com padrão de comportamento antissocial

Abstract

This study aims evaluate the application of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy to an adolescent serving the social-educational measure of community service. A single-case quasi experimental AB design filled that extent. The A condition referring to evaluation and case formulation, without any intervention planned, and the B condition of applying Functional Analytic Psychotherapy. The criteria for evaluating modifying behavior were the increase in desirable behaviour (expression of positive feelings, the expression of genuine repentance, self-revelation); the decrease in undesirable behavior (hostility, lying, blaming others for their own acts) and permanence in school, professional training activities and psychotherapy, as planned in the Statute of the Child and Adolescent. The adolescent participated in ten 50 minutes-long psychotherapy sessions, performed weekly and individually, the psychotherapy needed to be interrupted because the adolescent suffered an agression. The Parenting Style Inventory, the Youth Self Report and the Child Behavior Checklist were used to evaluate the adolescent. The Target Behavior Assessment System aims to verify the results of the intervention and the Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Rating Scale. Data was presented by means of figures representing the therapeutic process. Results show that clinically relevant behaviors were seen more frequently in phase B than in the evaluation phase (A). The average of desirable behaviors was bigger than the undesirable behaviors in evaluated sessions of phase B. In regards to intervention with this adolescent who were serving probation, some caracteristics of this population have been noticed, such as the lack of family encouragement, difficulty to get to the place where psychotherapy was held, and poor adherence to treatment, which are compromising to the development of the intervention.