Abstract

NOBILE, Glaucia Fernanda Galeazzi; GARCIA, Vagner Angelo  and  BOLSONI-SILVA, Alessandra Turini. Sequential analysis of the therapist's behavior in psychotherapy with college students with social anxiety disorder. Perspectivas [online]. 2017, vol.8, n.1, pp. 16-31. ISSN 2177-3548.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18761/pac.2016.030.

The study of therapeutic interaction enables know interpersonal variables responsible for changes in customer behavior and may help in practice to identify therapist behaviors that make the most effective intervention. This study aimed to describe the behaviors of therapeutic interaction, from sequential analysis, and the therapist's behavior as category criteria. They attended two college with social anxiety disorder and a therapist. The therapy was performed individual, behavioral analytic, including social skills training. Eleven sessions each client were categorized using the Multidimensional System categories protocol behaviors Categorization in Interaction Therapy (SiMCCIT) and The Observer software. Sequence analysis was performed with the therapist's behavior as a criterion. The results of sequential analysis points out that the behavior of the Report Request therapist and Facilitation favored customer report, the categories Information, Interpretation and Recommendation favored the occurrence of Customer Agreement. With the sequential analysis was possible to find some therapist's behavior patterns and customer, one of the therapist's management that favored a warm atmosphere and facilitated both the client's account as the establishment of relations.

Keywords : therapeutic interaction; sequential analysis; social anxiety disorder.

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