Abstract

ALMEIDA, Mariana Sampaio de; RUNNACLES, Angela de Loyola e Silva  and  SILVEIRA, Jocelaine Martins da. Training intimacy behaviors for therapists in the process of training Functional Analytic Psychotherapy. Perspectivas [online]. 2016, vol.7, n.2, pp. 212-228. ISSN 2177-3548.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18761/pac.2016.020.

This study verifies the effects of a training for intimate behavior in the behavioral repertoire of therapists in training. The method consists of applying a training that lasts five hours, taught by a therapist with experience in the teaching FAP. The participants consist of six undergraduate students of Psychology from an university. The training is planned and evaluated for the development of behaviors linked to "know that" and "know how". Data analysis consists of the evaluation of pre-training measures and post-training measures, in which participants describe behaviors of intimacy that a FAP therapist can deliver in the therapeutic context; and participate in a role-playing scenario of a therapeutic context in which the person is given the task of issuing a behavior of intimacy. The results indicate that the training improve their emission of behaviors linked to "know that". Some improvement in behaviors linked to "know how" has been achieved, especially in the behavior of direct actions under control of the "here now", but not satisfactorily. Replication of the training is encouraged with the use of other evaluation methods. The methods for evaluating the results of FAP therapist training are discussed and some guidelines are provided for future studies.

Keywords : therapist training; intimacy; functional analytic psychotherapy; supervision.

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