Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:56:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MonicaGianfaldoni.pdf: 676232 bytes, checksum: 6feeb20c502e599da85e6c2d92f4fa92 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-11-21 / Ethics and ethic teaching were chosen, because of their importance and nowadays presence, as privileged issues. This work s goal is to present a discussion about ethic that can be described as coming from the radical behaviourism and pointing the educational principles that should be taught, enhancing the dialogue between the two areas. According to the traditional conception, ethics and moral refer to judgements about what is the good, and the acceptable procedures among a specific group; they are historically resulting concepts, products of autonomic, responsible, rational and free men, who act in a conscious and willing way. The skinnerian ethic system, intrinsic product of radical behaviourism and behaviour analyses, does not need of autonomy, rationality and freedom notions in order to propose the existence of three kinds of goods: personal goods, goods the others and goods for the culture, with the survival value as being the foundation of whole system. Skinner warned that part of planet s population does not know about the serious problems that affect us all and the other part which knows it has not taken relevant measures to change them, especially because the major difficulty is that the future always seems to be in conflict with the present. The education, as a control agency, has the privileged role of planning a culture and the educational policy plans, at the end, the Man and the educational practices. The explicit course of action proposals aims for to overcome the obstacles to culture survival producing. The culture adequate planning, let the person be controlled by circumstances, productive actions, it could take care of maximising behaviours with survival values. To transmit the socially produced accumulated knowledge, to produce the behavioural variability, to minimise immediate consequences and maximising the rare ones, to educate to the self-control, to insert the community into values propositions, to use collective criteria to overrule the individual ones, to re-establish the balanced reciprocity, to educate to the productive laze and amusement, to use the face-to-face control and the soft positives reinforcements, to avoid nasty events, to educate to the environment preservation, to teach social and scientific skills, using the technological control it is what could contribute to the consecution of ethic primary value that radical behaviourists should take as an assumption of their behaviours in any situation that face. / A ética e o ensino da ética foram escolhidos, pela importância e atualidade, como temas privilegiados. O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar a discussão sobre ética que pode ser descrita a partir do behaviorismo radical e indicar princípios educacionais que devem ser ensinados, ampliando o diálogo entre as duas áreas. Segundo a concepção tradicional, ética e moral referem-se a julgamentos sobre o que é bem, e condutas aceitas dentro de um determinado grupo; são conceitos historicamente determinados, produtos de homens livres, racionais, responsáveis e autônomos que agem de forma consciente e voluntária. O sistema ético skinneriano, produto intrínseco do behaviorismo radical e da análise do comportamento, prescinde das noções de liberdade, racionalidade e autonomia para propor a existência de três tipos de bens: bens para si, bens para os outros e bens da cultura, com o valor da sobrevivência como sendo o fundante de todo o sistema. Skinner advertiu que parte da população do planeta não sabe dos graves problemas que nos afetam a todos e a parte que sabe não tem feito ações relevantes para alterá-los, especialmente porque a maior dificuldade é que o futuro sempre parece conflitante com o presente. A educação, como uma agência de controle, tem o papel privilegiado de planejar uma cultura e as práticas educativas e a política educacional planeja, no final das contas, o ser humano. As propostas de ação explicitadas visam a superar os obstáculos à produção da sobrevivência da cultura que incluiriam: o planejamento adequado da cultura, e a prática de liberar reforçadores contingentes a ações produtivas, poderiam dar conta de maximizar comportamentos com valor de sobrevivência. Transmitir os conhecimentos acumulados e socialmente produzidos, produzir a variabilidade comportamental, minimizar conseqüências imediatas e maximizar as remotas, educar para o autocontrole, inserir a comunidade na proposição de valores, utilizar critérios coletivos em detrimento dos individuais, restabelecer a reciprocidade balanceada, educar para o lazer produtivo, utilizar-se do controle face-a-face e de reforçadores positivos amenos, evitar eventos aversivos, educar para a preservação do meio físico, ensinar habilidades e conhecimentos científicos e sociais, utilizando-se do controle tecnológico é o que poderia contribuir para a consecução do bem primário da ética que behavioristas radicais deveriam assumir como suposto de seus comportamentos em qualquer situação em que se encontrem.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:57:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andreia da Silva Tulon.pdf: 1514511 bytes, checksum: b4706ad8a9ee22bc672a2e4ed1701c20 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-03 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / According to the majority of educator s elementary school students show difficulties in learning complex mathematic concepts, such as fractions. Such results urgently recommend the development of new teaching methodologies able to help students to overcome their difficulties. Behavioral analyst researchers have been making use of the stimulus equivalence paradigm in order to teach a mathematical repertoire. This paradigm allows to account for the emergency of new behaviors from other previously instructed, and that happens when different stimulus classes are made to be equivalents. Based on this paradigm point the present work elaborated and tested a procedure for teaching fractions using the MESTRE (GOYOS, ELIAS & RIBEIRO, 2005) software as a tool. Three stimulus classes were used: dictated proportional fractions (A), pictorial fractions (B) and printed proportional fractions (C), all of them with values lower than 9.Participated of the study two children age 9, in the 3rd grade of two private elementary schools of São Paulo city. The teaching Schedule was applied over two participants with nine years old, students of the third grade in private educational institutes (Sao Paulo South Square). Design involved pre-tests, teaching phase and tests for emerging relations and generalization test. The AB and BC relations were taught; relations BD, CB, AC and CD were only tested for emergency of other relations (subjects should read printed proportional fractions). Generalization was tested submitting students to fractions not previously taught. Part of these had denominators which had not been employed during the training phase. Results indicated that not trained relations BD, CB, AC and CD (where subjects should read printed proportional fractions) emerged showing that stimulus classes A, B and C became equivalents. Besides students proved to be able to read fractions without explicit training, making evident that the educational program was effective and that the equivalence paradigm is a helpful tool the fill the gaps left behind by ongoing educational practices / Os educadores em geral detectam grande dificuldade dos alunos na aprendizagem de conceitos matemáticos complexos, como é o caso das frações; as avaliações diagnósticas são unânimes em apontar uma urgente necessidade de desenvolvimento de novas metodologias de ensino que potencializem a aquisição desse conteúdo por parte dos alunos. Pesquisadores da abordagem comportamental têm ensinado repertórios matemáticos com base no paradigma da equivalência de estímulos. Tal paradigma permite explicar a emergência de comportamentos novos, a partir de outros previamente ensinados; para tanto, classes de estímulos diferentes devem se tornar equivalentes. Com base em tal paradigma, a presente pesquisa teve por objetivos elaborar e testar uma proposta de ensino de frações, utilizando como recurso o software educativo MESTRE (GOYOS, ELIAS & RIBEIRO, 2005). Foram utilizadas três classes de estímulos: frações proporcionais ditadas (A), frações pictoriais (B) e frações proporcionais impressas (C), com valores inferiores a 9. A programação de ensino foi aplicada a dois participantes com a idade de 9 anos, alunos da 3ª série (4º ano de escolarização) de instituições educacionais privadas da zona sul da cidade de São Paulo. Foi proposto delineamento envolvendo Pré-Teste, Ensino, Teste de emergência de relações, Teste de generalização. Foram ensinadas as relações AB e BC, avaliando-se se emergiam, sem ensino prévio, as relações BD, CB, AC e CD (leitura pelo aluno de frações proporcionais impressas). Verificou-se a generalização do desempenho do aluno através de um teste contendo frações não ensinadas, parte delas com denominadores ensinados e outra parte contendo denominadores inéditos. Os resultados indicaram a emergência das relações não ensinadas BD, CB, AC e CD (leitura pelo aluno de frações proporcionais impressas), evidenciando que as classes de estímulos A, B e C tornaram-se equivalentes, além de evidenciar que ocorreu generalização para frações inéditas, indicando que a programação de ensino foi eficiente. Os resultados obtidos demonstram ser o ensino, tendo por base o paradigma da equivalência de estímulos, um possível caminho a ser trilhado no sentido de preencher lacunas deixadas pelas metodologias predominantes nas escolas

The purpose of this study is to outline students’ attitudes towards ICT in the learning of English. The research was carried out as action research at a vocational high school in Sweden. The study aims at giving answers to the questions what the students’ attitudes towards ICT are, to what extent they think that ICT affects their learning and if ICT use changes their attitudes towards English. The students had little or no previous experience of ICT. For a period of two months, they used ICT in their English studies. This work was organized according to Svensson’s (2008) definitions ICT as a tutor, ICT as a tool and ICT as an arena, which are connected to behavioristic, cognitive/constructive and social constructivist/socio-cultural learning perspectives, respectively. For example, the students read and listened to texts online, wrote their own dialogues for a movie and maintained their own blogs. After each module, they evaluated the method and at the end of the project they were interviewed. The study shows that most of the students were positive towards ICT in learning English. They were most positive towards ICT as a tutor, which was interesting given that behavioristic ways of learning are often criticized by today’s scholars. Furthermore, the students claimed that ICT gives them new opportunities to learn. Not surprisingly, to learn in a way that suits the individual learner was seen as positive. They stated that it was difficult to comment on the impact that ICT might have had on their performance after such a limited period of time, but they indicated that they thought that they had improved at least a little. During the interviews, a few students claimed to have changed their attitudes towards English a little, in a positive way, but it was difficult to confirm this after such short time.

<p>The purpose of this study is to outline students’ attitudes towards ICT in the learning of English. The research was carried out as action research at a vocational high school in Sweden. The study aims at giving answers to the questions what the students’ attitudes towards ICT are, to what extent they think that ICT affects their learning and if ICT use changes their attitudes towards English. The students had little or no previous experience of ICT. For a period of two months, they used ICT in their English studies. This work was organized according to Svensson’s (2008) definitions <em>ICT as a tutor</em>,<em> ICT as a tool </em>and<em> ICT as an arena</em>, which are connected to behavioristic, cognitive/constructive and social constructivist/socio-cultural learning perspectives, respectively. For example, the students read and listened to texts online, wrote their own dialogues for a movie and maintained their own blogs. After each module, they evaluated the method and at the end of the project they were interviewed. The study shows that most of the students were positive towards ICT in learning English. They were most positive towards ICT as a tutor, which was interesting given that behavioristic ways of learning are often criticized by today’s scholars. Furthermore, the students claimed that ICT gives them new opportunities to learn. Not surprisingly, to learn in a way that suits the individual learner was seen as positive. They stated that it was difficult to comment on the impact that ICT might have had on their performance after such a limited period of time, but they indicated that they thought that they had improved at least a little. During the interviews, a few students claimed to have changed their attitudes towards English a little, in a positive way, but it was difficult to confirm this after such short time.</p>

[Truncated abstract] Against a contextual backdrop of slowing growth in developed mobile service markets, the importance of youth as a growth segment, and youth's tendencies to consume mobile services hedonically, two research streams drove this dissertation. The first stream concerned extending the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to predict youth's behavioural intentions to stay loyal to mobile service providers. Drawing on selfcategorisation theory, a conceptual model extended TPB by replacing subjective norm with group norm, a social influence from behaviourally relevant peers. With the extended TPB as the theoretical framework, the second stream investigated determinants of mobile loyalty intentions. Common to both streams, a key contribution of this dissertation was how hedonic consumption moderated the relationships among mobile loyalty intentions and their determinants. The dissertation addressed five questions in the two research streams, which to the author's knowledge no published studies have explored. Using a triangulation approach to address the research questions, a qualitative survey and literature review yielded six determinants of mobile loyalty intentions. Next, a pretest led to an improved questionnaire before a large-scale survey gathered data for empirical testing. The survey took place with Singaporean youth and yielded a cleaned sample of n = 415. ... For both low and high hedonic consumptions, customer value was insignificant. This might be due to Singapore's competitive mobile service market; youth perceived little differences in value for money among competing mobile service providers. Testing alternative models offered further insights into youth's mobile loyalty intentions. Youth's mobile loyalty behaviour, operationalised as past switching, was not stochastic, suggesting that mobile loyalty intentions contained underlying determinants. Brand trust, salient in other contexts, did not apply to mobile loyalty intentions perhaps because youth perceived little risk in switching mobile service providers in developed markets. An attitude-group norm interaction also did not relate to mobile loyalty intentions, supporting TPB's construct independence and parsimony. Finally, attitude and customer satisfaction were operationally similar in that they related to mobile loyalty intentions similarly. The dissertation concluded by offering academic and managerial implications and contributions, limitations, and future research areas.

La recherche souligne, selon une perspective béhavioriste, l’importance grandissante de l’intermédiation logistique à travers le rôle dynamisant du PSL au sein des chaînes logistiques multi-acteurs. En s’éloignant de son métier historique, en l’occurrence la gestion de simples acheminements, le PSL évolue vers des services à plus forte valeur ajoutée, voire de nouveaux métiers, qui transforment en profondeur le fonctionnement de ces chaînes. S’inscrivant dans une logique d’exploration, la recherche participe à enrichir les travaux antérieurs relatifs au PSL, souvent de nature technique, par une approche béhavioriste. Le PSL est d’abord un acteur, doté d’objectifs propres, qui développe un comportement stratégique singulier ; il ne se résume pas à être un simple exécutant opérationnel d’activités issues d’une externalisation voulue par des chargeurs à la recherche d’une minimisation des coûts. Une telle approche, jusque-là peu explorée, permet de mieux saisir le rôle dynamisant du PSL dans les chaînes logistiques multi-acteurs, tout particulièrement dans le contexte français. Il ressort de la recherche que le PSL a acquis un pouvoir suffisant pour en influencer le fonctionnement. Il occupe une position de choix pour capter durablement de la valeur, autrement dit, bénéficier de transfert d’activités, de compétences et de ressources de la part des chargeurs. / The goal of our research is to underline, from a behavioral angle, the increasing importance of logistical intermediation through the LSP’s dynamic role within supply chains. By digressing from its historical profession, the management of simple carriages to be specific, the LSP is moving towards high added value services, even new trades, which deeply transform the chains’ functioning. By falling within an exploratory logic, this research participates in enriching the previous works about LSP, mainly of a technical nature, through a behavioral approach. At first, the LSP is an actor which has his own goals and who develops a singular strategic behavior: it does not amount to be a simple operational performer of activities coming from an outsourcing required by shippers in search of a minimization of the costs. Such an approach, which has not been explored so far, enables a better understanding of the dynamic role of the LSP in supply chains, particularly in the French context. It comes out of the research that the LSP has acquired enough power to influence its functioning. It is rightly placed to get some value durably, in other words, to benefit from transfer of activities, skills and resources from the shippers.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:12:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2974.pdf: 1170859 bytes, checksum: 9277e347f6b6da604f23c3cbae14d73f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-08 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / Through a critical reading of Skinner s works it was intended to clarify ambiguitiesconcerning scientific and philosophical communities regarding the concepts of rule and verbalstimulus. It was also sought an appropriate statement of creative behavior and thoughtconcepts according to Skinner s Radical Behaviorism. This research had, therefore, a twofoldobjective which was to identify: (1) Skinnerian interpretation of creative behavior and thoughtand (2) Skinner s conception of rule and rule-governed behavior. The steady relation pointedout by B. F. Skinner among the concepts of verbal stimulus, rule and creative behavior and, atthe same time, the controversy spread out by Skinner s commentators and scientists, seeking asufficient and non-ambiguous definition of rule, mainly justifies this study enterprise. Usually, these commentators treat verbal stimulus and rule concepts as identical, being thisidentity a satisfying condition for a definition of the latter as a corollary of the statementsrelating to the Verbal Behavior matter. Moreover, commonly Skinner s work reviewersdefine creative behavior as a variation or unit recombination, which implies supposing thatcreative behavior does not differ from other emissions of operant behavior, since the variationis a ubiquitous characteristic on behavior emissions according to Skinnerian model ofselection by consequences. Part of this study consisted in demonstrating how an explanationof the distinctions existing between verbal stimulus and rule can collaborate with a preciseand productive definition of complex and creative human behavior without losing sight of thebehavioral interpretation object s inherent characteristics. Aiming these goals, the course ofresearch went the following route: (1) identification, in texts by the author, of the conceptsunderlying behavioral interpretation; (2) a systematic analysis of the verbal stimulus concepton its possible behavioral functions and, thus, also its relation to the rule concept; (3) theformulation of an alternate interpretation of creative behavior and rule-governed behaviorbased on Skinnerian explanatory system. Finally, there was a brief foray into formulations ofDewey and Wertheimer on creative behavior and thinking in order to, thereby, outlinepossible convergence on interpretative perspectives brought by the three authors. Among themost important results, it was demonstrated that: (1) simply presume variability does notexplain creative behavior, not only from B. F. Skinner perspective, but neither from JohnDewey s and Max Wertheimer s; (2) four Skinner notions are fundamental in a conceptualrelation between behavioral analysis and interpretation: strength, property, continuum andcomplexity; (3) rule is not defined as verbal stimulus and neither it is a conceptual subcategoryof this kind of stimulation; (4) creative behavior is necessarily complex andorganized, and its structure is functionally defined; (5) rule is one of the creative complexbehavior elements; and (6) rule is a new complex discriminative stimulus with a functionalcomplication typical of a creative emission, although it is not restricted to this behavioralcontext. / Por meio de uma leitura crítica da obra skinneriana, pretendeu-se esclarecer as ambiguidades presentes na comunidade científica e filosófica no que diz respeito aos conceitos de regra e estímulo verbal. Também buscou-se uma formulação satisfatória das concepções de comportamento criativo e pensamento, conforme o comportamentalismo radical de B. F. Skinner. A presente investigação teve, portanto, um duplo objetivo, que consistiu em identificar: (1) a interpretação skinneriana de comportamento criativo e pensamento e (2) a concepção skinneriana de regra e comportamento controlado por regra. A principal justificativa para tal empreendimento está na constante relação que B. F. Skinner apresenta entre os conceitos de estímulo verbal, regra e comportamento criativo e, ao mesmo tempo, na controvérsia, disseminada pelos comentadores e cientistas da área, que caracteriza a busca de uma definição suficiente e sem ambiguidades de "regra". Geralmente, os comentadores apresentam uma identificação entre estímulo verbal e regra que parece satisfazer a definição desse como um corolário dos argumentos envolvidos no tópico "Comportamento Verbal." Por outro lado, é comum que comentadores da obra de B. F. Skinner definam o comportamento criativo como variação ou recombinação de unidades, o que implica em supor que o comportamento criativo não se diferenciaria de outras emissões do comportamento operante,uma vez que a variação é, segundo o modelo skinneriano de seleção pelas consequências,aspecto onipresente das emissões comportamentais. Parte do trabalho consistiu em demonstrar como uma explicitação das distinções que existem entre estímulo verbal e regra podem colaborar com uma definição precisa e produtiva do comportamento humano complexo e criativo, sem perder de vista as características inerentes ao objeto da interpretação comportamental. Visando tais objetivos, o curso da investigação seguiu o seguinte itinerário:(1) identificação, em textos do autor, das noções que fundamentam a interpretação comportamental; (2) análise sistemática do conceito de estímulo verbal em suas possíveis funções comportamentais e, desse modo, também sua relação com o conceito de regra; (3)formulação de uma interpretação alternativa do comportamento criativo e controle por regra baseada no sistema explicativo skinneriano. Por fim, realizou-se uma breve incursão nas formulações de Dewey e Wertheimer sobre o comportamento criativo e o pensamento visando, desse modo, delinear possíveis convergências na perspectiva interpretativa apresentada pelos três autores. Dentre os resultados mais importantes, demonstrou-se que: (1)a simples suposição de variabilidade não explica o comportamento criativo, segundo a perspectiva não somente de B. F. Skinner, mas também de John Dewey e Max Wertheimer;(2) quatro noções skinnerianas são fundamentais na relação conceitual entre análise e interpretação comportamentais: força, propriedade, contínuo e complexidade; (3) regra não se define como estímulo verbal, e nem é uma subcategoria conceitual desse tipo de estímulo; (4) o comportamento criativo é necessariamente complexo e organizado, apresentando uma estrutura funcionalmente definida; (5) regra é um dos elementos do comportamento complexo criativo; e (6) regra é estímulo discriminativo complexo novo com uma complicação funcional característica da emissão criativa, embora não se restrinja a esse contexto comportamental.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-08-26T14:49:36Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO DEFINITIVA.pdf: 2841429 bytes, checksum: 7a2ab1e6670fc50edaf4f514819d3657 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-26T14:49:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO DEFINITIVA.pdf: 2841429 bytes, checksum: 7a2ab1e6670fc50edaf4f514819d3657 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-17 / CAPEs / O presente trabalho teve por objetivo identificar quais teorias de aprendizagem orientam o designdas tecnologias educacionais (ambientes, materiais didáticos e atividades) desenvolvidas para os cursos de Pedagogia oferecidos na modalidade a distância pelas universidades federais do Nordeste. Para tal, realizamos a revisão de literatura das principais teorias de aprendizagem dos séculos XX e XXI, de modo a identificarmos seus princípios mais importantes para o planejamento de tecnologias educacionais, tais princípios deram origem às nossas categorias de análise. Para a coleta dos dados em campo foram realizados os seguintes procedimentos: a) análise documental, como indicada por Gil (2008), dos Projetos Pedagógicos de Curso-PPCs; b) entrevistas semiestruturadas com professores/coordenadores dos cursos-alvo, e; c) observação sistemática das tecnologias empregadas em sete disciplinas de dois destes cursos. Para análise e interpretação dos dados foi adotada a técnica da análise de conteúdo, conforme orientada por Moraes (1999) e Gil (2008). Como resultado, identificamos que os PPCs apresentam forte viés escolanovista com significativa presença do Construtivismo e Socioconstrutivismo. Já as falas dos sujeitos são marcadamente behavioristas e cognitivistas, apresentando ainda uma ênfase leve ou moderada de princípios construtivistas e/ou socioconstrutivistas. Nas tecnologias propriamente ditas transparecem princípios coerentes com aqueles identificados nas falas dos sujeitos entrevistados, variando, contudo, a qualidade com que tais princípios são aplicados durante o processo de design, o que indica haver forte presença de senso comum orientando o planejamento das tecnologias educacionais. / This study aimed to identify which learning theories guide the design of educational technologies (environments, learning materials and activities) developed for teaching courses offered in distance education by federal universities in the Northeast region of Brazil. To this end, we conducted a literature review of the main theories of learning of XX and XXI centuries, in order to identify its most important principles for the planning of educational technologies. Such principles originated our analytical categories. To collect the field data, the following procedures were performed: a) document analysis of Pedagogical Projects Course -PPCs, as indicated by Gil (2008); b) semi-structured interviews with teachers/coordinators of the target courses, and; c) Systematic observation of the technologies employed in seven of two of these courses. For analysis and interpretation of data it was adopted the technique of content analysis, as guided by Moraes (1999) and Gil (2008). As a result, we identified that the PPCs have a strong bias of New School thought with a significant presence of constructivism and socio-constructivism. Yet, the participants&#39; speech are markedly behavioral and cognitivist, and contains mild or moderate emphasis on constructivist or socioconstructivist principles. The technologies themselves transpire principles consistent with those identified in the statements of the interviewees, varying, however, the quality withwhich these principles are applied during the design process, which indicates that there is strong presence of common sense guiding the planning of the educational technologies.

Tradicionalmente, a escolha pelo tipo de intervenção psicoterápica para diferentes quadros clínicos depende fundamentalmente da experiência profissional do terapeuta e de sua predileção por determinadas estratégias clínicas. Esse cenário, entretanto, tem se modificado no contexto da prática baseada em evidências, definida pela American Psychological Association como o processo individualizado de tomada de decisão clínica que ocorre por meio da integração da melhor evidência disponível com a perícia clínica no contexto das características, cultura e preferências do cliente. O paradigma de prática baseada em evidências está em perfeita harmonia com a ideologia da análise do comportamento aplicada, que, desde a sua origem, apresenta um forte comprometimento com a sustentação empírica de seus procedimentos terapêuticos. Apesar desse comprometimento, é de fundamental importância avaliar em que medida a área está ou não produzindo evidências de eficácia. Em vista disso, o presente trabalho teve por objetivo analisar a produção de evidências empíricas da terapia analítico-comportamental (TAC) e da psicoterapia analítica-funcional (FAP), na literatura nacional e internacional, de modo a complementar as revisões sistemáticas já realizadas sobre outras modalidades de análise do comportamento clínica terapia de aceitação e compromisso (ACT), terapia comportamental dialética (DBT) e ativação comportamental (BA). Para cumprir esse objetivo, foi realizada uma revisão da literatura conduzida de forma a localizar o maior número possível de estudos empíricos sobre TAC e FAP, publicados ou não, que abarcou onze bases de dados globais e três bases de dados específicas da análise do comportamento. A seleção dos estudos obedeceu aos seguintes critérios de inclusão: ser relato de caso, experimento de caso único ou pesquisa de grupo que descreve os resultados obtidos num processo de terapia individual; ter participantes com desenvolvimento típico e idade igual ou superior a 18 anos; ter ocorrido exclusivamente no ambiente de consultório; ser fundamentado no behaviorismo radical e utilizar conceitos da análise do comportamento na descrição do processo terapêutico. No total, foram selecionados 54 trabalhos que apresentaram 72 casos. As informações de cada um dos casos foram organizadas numa planilha do Microsoft Excel e diferentes categorias de análise foram construídas de modo a possibilitar dois tipos de análise. A primeira, descritiva, abarcou a denominação dada à terapia, idade, gênero e diagnóstico dos clientes, método de pesquisa, número de sessões, avaliação da fidelidade ao procedimento, apresentação de análise de contingências, alvos da intervenção, procedimentos utilizados, eficácia, medidas de resultado e follow-up. A segunda análise consistiu em diversos cruzamentos entre esses dados. Os resultados obtidos permitem concluir que a TAC e a FAP carecem de evidências empíricas que comprovem ou rejeitem sua eficácia. À luz desses dados e das revisões sistemáticas sobre ACT, DBT e BA, argumenta-se que terapeutas e pesquisadores brasileiros têm três opções: (1) utilizar apenas os princípios comportamentais básicos, isto é, a teoria, para guiar sua prática clínica, o que é insuficiente para garantir a eficácia da intervenção; (2) adotar um dos modelos internacionais de análise do comportamento clínica; (3) sistematizar a TAC para, posteriormente, pesquisá-la experimentalmente. Espera-se que, além de oferecer o estado da arte da pesquisa clínica sobre TAC e sobre FAP, este trabalho contribua para o desenvolvimento científico das terapias comportamentais e para o fortalecimento da análise do comportamento como ciência e profissão / Traditionally, the choice of the type of psychotherapeutic intervention for various clinical conditions fundamentally depends on the professional experience of the therapist and his/her predilection for certain clinical strategies. However, this scenario has been changing in the context of evidence-based practice, defined by the American Psychological Association as the individualized process of clinical decision-making that takes place through the integration of the best available evidence with clinical expertise in the context of the characteristics, culture and preferences of the client. The paradigm of evidence-based practice is in perfect harmony with the applied behavior analysis ideology, which, since its inception, has a strong commitment to the empirical support of its therapeutic procedures. Despite this commitment, it is of fundamental importance to assess to what extent the area is or is not producing evidence of efficacy. In view of this, this thesis aimed to analyze the production of empirical evidence of behavioral-analytic therapy (TAC) and functional-analytic psychotherapy (FAP), in national and international literature, in order to complement the systematic reviews already conducted on other modalities of clinical behavior analysis acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and behavioral activation (BA). To achieve this goal, a review of the literature was conducted in order to find the largest possible number of empirical studies of TAC and FAP, published or not, which covered eleven global databases and three specific databases of behavior analysis. The selection of studies followed the following inclusion criteria: to be a case report, single-case experiment or group research that describes the results obtained in an individual therapy process; to have participants with typical development and age up to 18 years of age; to have taken place exclusively in the office environment; to be based on radical behaviorism and to use behavior analysis concepts in the description of the therapeutic process. In total, 54 works that presented 72 cases were selected. The information regarding each one of the cases has been organized in a Microsoft Excel worksheet and different analysis categories have been designed so as to enable two kinds of analysis. The first kind was a descriptive one, and embraced the name given to the therapy, age, gender and diagnosis of clients, research method, number of sessions, evaluation of procedure fidelity, description of analysis of contingencies, targets of intervention, procedures used, efficacy, outcome measures and follow-up. The second kind consisted of the analysis of different combinations of these data. The results lead to the conclusion that TAC and FAP lack empirical evidence to support or reject their efficacy. In light of these data and the systematic reviews on ACT, DBT and BA, it is argued that Brazilian therapists and researchers have three options: (1) use only the basic behavioral principles, i.e. the theory, to guide their clinical practice, which is insufficient to ensure the efficacy of the intervention; (2) adopt one of the international models of clinical behavior analysis; (3) systematize TAC so that it can be researched experimentally afterwards. It is expected that, in addition to offering the state of the art of clinical research on TAC and on FAP, this work will contribute to the scientific development of behavioral therapies and to the strengthening of behavior analysis as a science and profession

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