Abstract

BELTRAMELLO, Otávio  and  KIENEN, Nádia. Therapeutic Accompaniment and Behavior Analysis: Progress and issues regarding defining this intervention. Perspectivas [online]. 2017, vol.8, n.1, pp. 61-78. ISSN 2177-3548.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18761/PAC.2016.034.

Despite that Therapeutic Accompaniment has been recognized as an important intervention in Psychology and Behavior Analysis, there is no consensus regarding what behavior classes are constituent and could define this intervention. This theoretical-conceptual study aims to critically characterize contributions of Psychology and Behavior Analysis to define this intervention, besides proposing that Behavior Analysis and Teaching Programming have theoretical-conceptual and technological resources to contribute to this definition. Based on the literature review, it was found that Therapeutic Accompaniment has been defined using metaphors and as a subordinate service of a clinical psychologist despite the contributions of Behavior Modification, Behavioral Therapy and Applied Behavior Analysis. It is argued that Behavior Analysis and Teaching Programming provide resources that contribute to a more precise definition of Therapeutic Accompaniment Intervention in Psychology. This might be done by characterizing and systematizing the behavior classes that constitute this intervention through different degrees of complexity.

Keywords : Therapeutic Intervention; Psychologist training; Teaching Programming; Behavior classes.

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