Learning process in psychotherapy
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Process Research, Results Research, Therapeutic Process, Observational MethodologyAbstract
In this work we expose the need to promote process research as the most appropriate way to understand and explain the therapeutic process while questioning the methodology used in results research, currently predominant for the study of clinical intervention: comparison of groups, random assignment of subjects or classification with diagnostic labels that make it difficult to study the therapeutic process and identify the elements that make a treatment have a certain effect. Against this type of research, a series of studies are presented that defend the use of observational methodology for the identification of the learning processes that would be responsible for change in therapy, as well as the analysis of therapeutic interaction from a functional perspective: taking into account that psychological therapy is fundamentally spoken, it is proposed that the optimal way to analyze it is based on the study of the verbal interaction between client and therapist. Therefore, we present a coding system of verbal interaction that we propose as a tool to identify the functions of the therapist's verbal behavior during the clinical intervention process. In addition, in the different works, an analysis has been carried out on the role played by instructions, the processes of reinforcement and discriminative control, the transfer of functions through pairings and language as a collaborative process.
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