Abstract

SANTOS, Fernanda Alves dos; SANTOS, Karina de Lima  and  AURELIANO, Lívia Ferreira Godinho. Study of psychotic behavior by the Behavior Analysis: review of publications in JEAB and JABA. Perspectivas [online]. 2013, vol.4, n.1, pp. 52-69. ISSN 2177-3548.

This paper aimed to review and analyze behavior-analytic literature on psychotic behavior. Twenty-five related articles were selected on JEAB and JABA. The selected articles were fully analyzed and categorized according to the following criteria: year of publication, research objectives, target-behaviors, type of reinforcers, main results, discussions and final considerations. The majority of the studies were published on the 1970’s and aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of operant principles or modify patient’s behaviors. Verbal behavior and conditioned reinforcers were the most frequent target behavior and programmed consequences, respectively. The amount of behavior-analytic studies on schizophrenia and psychotic behavior published on JEAB and JABA is small if compared to other mainstream journals during the same period. Behavior Analysis should intensify research on this topic focusing on evaluating treatment effectiveness with psychotic population.

Keywords : schizophrenia; psychosis; behavior analysis.

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