Psicoterapia analítico-comportamental com adolescentes infratores de alto-risco

Modificação De Padrões Anti-Sociais E Diminuição Da Reincidência Criminal

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ID5820704
AuthorsGiovana Veloso Munhoz Da Rocha (0000-0003-3441-2460, corresponding author)
Year2008
Publication date2008-10-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/t.47.2008.tde-22102008-102617
OpenAlexW1597200008
LanguagePT
References cited23

This study aimed to verify whether behavioral analytic therapeutic intervention with high-risk juvenile offenders would be related to the decrease of undesirable behaviors such as hostility, lying, and blaming others, as well as the increase of desirable behaviors like self-disclosure, expression of positive feelings, and regrets.It also aimed to identify which interventions the psychotherapist used, and verify whether changes were related to the following measures of social reintegration: decrease in criminal recidivism, remaining at school, job maintenance, and self-sustenance.Participants were 11 adolescent offenders who were incarcerated in a state facility and considered high-risk offenders due to serious offenses.Parental Styles Inventory was used to classify participants according to parental educational practices.For analysis of psychotherapy sessions, a tool based on clinical observation by the therapist was used to evaluate clients' behavioral changes as well as a tool consisting of therapist's behavior categories for identifying professional interventions.After participants' release, data were collected concerning the above indicators of social reintegration.Results showed that the most frequent behaviors of the therapist across 99 of the sessions with 11 different clients-offenders were: obtaining information ( x = 40), giving information ( x =24), facilitation ( x = 19) and empathy ( x = 17).The less used were disapproval ( x =3), approval ( x =4) and recommendation ( x =6).In nine of the eleven cases there was an improvement of the desired behaviors and decline of the undesired in the adolescents' behavioral repertory.In two cases in which these changes didn't occur, the presence of antisocial personality disorder with psychopathic traces was diagnosed.Considering the community reintegration criteria obtained during follow-up, it was possible to note that: four boys continued studying, one stopped temporarily and returned later, two remained studying in the facility and three dropped out.Regarding job maintenance, six participants worked without formal registration, three were employed and two were not working at all.Five participants reached self-sustenance, four reached it partially, and still needed family help, and two were unsuccessful.Due to difficulties of geographical nature, only three participants continued formal psychotherapy.Two that were still interned expressed desire to continue after release and only three did not continue contact with the psychotherapist

Empathy · Feeling · Hostility · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Recidivism · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology

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