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[Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Approaches and scope of behavior therapy based on changes in the therapeutic
Amanda M Muñoz-Martínez1, Juan P Coletti
1Grupo de Investigación en Ciencias del Comportamiento (Bogotá, Colombia). amandamile@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) is a therapeutic approach developed in 'third wave therapies' context. FAP is characterized by use therapeutic relationship and the behaviors emit into it to improve clients daily life functioning. This therapeutic model is supported in behavior analysis principles and contextual functionalism philosophy. FAP proposes that clients behavior in session are functional equivalent with those out of session; therefore, when therapists respond to clients behaviors in session contingently, they promote and increase improvements in the natural setting. This article poses main features of FAP, its philosophical roots, achievements and research challenges to establish FAP as an independent treatment based on the evidence.
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