Abstract

BANACO, Roberto Alves. The access to covert events in clinic practice: a finality or an expedient?. Rev. bras. ter. comport. cogn. [online]. 1999, vol.1, n.2, pp.135-142. ISSN 1517-5545.

Behavior therapists has asked to their clients about covert events with therapeutic proposes. However, despite this practice be coherent with aradical behavioristic approach, it claims the use of information to access environment contingencies where the client is inserted. This work advises about the risk of the therapist's satisfaction with the information about covert events, without the search of environmental relations from it. These issues are discussed through a survey in literature about the possibilities in planning respondents and operants contingencies that are capable of provoking overt and covert responses attached to private events reports.

Keywords : radical behaviorism; functional analysis; behavior therapy; covert events; experimental models.

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