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BEZERRA, Tarita Almirão dos Santos; TEIXEIRA JUNIOR, Ronaldo Rodrigues  e  PALHA, Diovani Cavalheiro. The production of rules through playing in a child's behavioral clinical care. Perspectivas [online]. 2013, vol.4, n.2, pp.70-91. ISSN 2177-3548.

Using a children's case study report, this paper attempts to demonstrate how playing and the rule-making can interfere in other behavior of a child. The work was based on registers of the treatment of a six-year old child, Kissylla [a fictitious name], brought for therapy by her mother. The primary complain was related to stealing and the formulation of the case indicated that this behavior was related to difficulties of the child in following rules and in the establishment of affective relations with her mother. The interventions were carried out through playing and training sessions related to the problem situations between the child and her mother, with the objective of forming new rules and increasing the proximity between mother and daughter. Initially, the child was given gifts for following rules of games [arbitrary reinforcements]; then it passed on to be more controlled by the mother's attention [natural reinforcement]. After 41 sessions, changes were observed in different operant behaviors related to following rules, for example, not cheating during the games and greater quality of interaction with the family, leading to the patient's discharge. The theft behavior was not the focus of the treatment and did not occur during the last nine months of the therapy.

Palavras-chave : child behavior therapy; stealing; rules; playing; case study.

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