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KOHLENBERG, R.J. AND TSAI, M. (2008). FUNCTIONAL ANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY (FAP) – CREATING INTENSE AND CURATIVE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIPS. MÁLAGA: UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA PUBLICATION SERVICE. (Translated by Luis Valero and Sebastián Cobos)

Reviewed by: Miguel Ángel López Bermúdez Clinical Psychology Centre, Bailén (Jaén)

he title of this excellent book announces clearly numerous examples with dialogues taken from and concisely what the reader will find explained therapeutic sessions. The first chapter deals with the T inside: psychotherapy with a structure defined theoretical foundations of FAP on the basis of functional according to therapeutic rules whose intention leads to the analysis applied in the therapeutic session itself and the functional analysis of behaviour, particularly verbal therapist-client dialogue. The second explains the behaviour in Skinner’s (1957) classic formulation. The concept of relevant clinical behaviours and sets out the approach described draws, therefore, on the five basic rules governing clinical application. Chapter 3 philosophical principles of radical behaviourism. offers numerous examples of the functional analysis of Classical Behaviour Therapy has been criticized for verbal behaviour according to Skinner’s (1957) classic having ignored the therapeutic relationship. However, formulation, applied in this therapeutic dialogue. Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) builds its entire Chapter 4 looks at the role of emotions and their clinical structural scaffolding precisely on the basis of the implications at a behavioural level, the difference with therapeutic relationship. Thus, it proposes a series of respect to cognitive constructs, and the role of emotions precise rules to which the relationship should adhere in in the therapeutic relationship itself. Chapter 5 deals with order to be a genuine curative relationship. What in the role of cognitions and beliefs and proposes classical therapy would be a mere excipient becomes an alternative approaches to them from behaviourism, active ingredient in this type of therapy. This assumption contrasting them with the perspectives of cognitive inevitably leads therapists to adopt a role that is much theories. In Chapter 6 the authors formulate a more dynamic, active and attentive than those found in behavioural theory of “self”, as a verbal and socially other therapies, as well as – allow me to infer – a more constructed concept, focusing on its genesis and committed one, insofar as the functions entrusted to them development and proposing a classification of its are complex. Thus, the application of this therapy requires disorders that is useful for functional analysis within the the therapist to identify Clinically Relevant Behaviours, session. Chapter 7 contrasts FAP with psychodynamic evoke them, and reinforce Type 2 behaviours (the concepts, even incorporating a possible functional appropriate ones or therapeutic targets) and weaken interpretation of “transference”, which here takes on a those of Type 1 (the problematic ones for the session and quite different meaning. In the final chapter the authors for the client’s everyday life). A task of such dimensions reflect on ethical and research issues, since in this type of requires the therapeutic relationship to be a more intense psychotherapy there is a direct and genuine involvement one than in other therapies, whose scripts would be much of therapist and client, in a relationship that is not merely more static; here, the script is idiosyncratic with the client intellectual or professional, but also emotional and within the session itself. related to experiences within the sessions. The book is divided into eight chapters, organized by With this translation of the FAP manual, Professor the concepts and principles of the therapy, the definition Valero culminates the work of authors such as Dr. Rafael of relevant behaviours, the therapeutic rules to be Ferro, the author of reference on FAP in Spanish, and observed and the skills the therapist should possess, and Marino Pérez Álvarez (Pérez Álvarez, 1996a; 1996b) –

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whose texts on the subject are now classics – in bringing Ferro, R., Valero, L. & Vives, M. C. (2006). Application of this therapy to the attention of a Spanish readership. Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Clinical analysis of FAP is, above all, an extremely useful therapy, whose a patient with depressive disorder. The Behavior effectiveness with different disorders has been endorsed in Analyst Today, 7, 1-18. numerous works both in English (Callaghan, Summers & Kanter, J. W., Landes, S. J., Busch, A. M., Rusch, L. C., Weidman, 2003; Kanter, Kohlenberg & Loftus, 2002; Brown, K. R., Baruch, D. E. & Holman, G. I. (2006). Kanter, Schildcrout & Kohlenberg, 2005; Kanter et al., The effect of contingent reinforcement on target 2006; Vandenberghe, 2007) and in Spanish variables in outpatient psychotherapy for depression: (Carrascoso, 2003; Ferro, 2008; Ferro & Valero, 1998; An investigation of functional analytic psychotherapy. Ferro, Valero & López, 2007; Ferro, Valero & Vives, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 29, 463-467. 2006; López, Ferro & Calvillo, 2002). Kanter, J. W., Kohlenberg, R. J. & Loftus, E. F. (2002). There remains a great deal to be done, but this Demand characteristics, treatment rationales, and magnificent book may provide further stimulus to research cognitive therapy for depression. Prevention & on solutions to psychological disorders. What it certainly Treatment, 5, Article 41. does is to provide an excellent source of inspiration for Kanter, J. W., Schildcrout, J. S. & Kohlenberg, R. J. psychologists, especially clinical psychologists and (2005). In vivo processes in cognitive therapy for psychotherapists, to solve the psychological problems of depression: Frequency and benefits. Psychotherapy our clients, both in session and beyond the consulting Research, 15(4), 366-373. room. Kohlenberg, R. J., Kanter, J. W., Bolling, M. Y., Parker, C. & Tsai, M. (2002). Enhancing cognitive therapy for REFERENCES depression with functional analytic psychotherapy: Callaghan, G. M., Summers, C. J. & Weidman, M. Treatment guidelines and empirical findings. Cognitive (2003). The treatment of histrionic and narcissistic and Behavioral Practice, 9(3), 213-229. personality disorder behaviors: A single-subject López Bermúdez, M. A., Ferro, R. & Calvillo, M. (2002). demonstration of clinical effectiveness using Functional Una aplicación de la Psicoterapia Analítica Funcional Analytic Psychotherapy. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 33, 321-339. en un trastorno de angustia sin agorafobia [An Carrascoso, F. J. (2003). Jealousy: A case of application application of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy in an of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy. Psychology in anxiety disorder without agoraphobia]. Análisis y Spain, 7, 88-98. Modificación de Conducta, 28, 553-583. Ferro, R. & Valero, L. (1998). Psicoterapias conductistas: Pérez Álvarez, M. (1996a). La psicoterapia desde el nuevos enfoques clínicos [Behaviourist psychotherapies: punto de vista conductista [Psychotherapy from the new clinical perspectives]. Psicologemas, 12, 31-62. behaviourist perspective]. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva. Ferro, R. (2008). Recent studies in functional analytic Pérez Álvarez, M. (1996b). Tratamientos psicológicos psychotherapy. International Journal of Behavioral [Psychological treatments]. Madrid: Universitas Consultation and Therapy, 4, 239-249. Skinner, B.F. (1957). Verbal behaviour. New York: Ferro, R., Valero, L. & López-Bérmudez, M.A. (2007). Appleton-Century-Crofts. Novedades y aportaciones desde la Psicoterapia Vandenberghe, L. (2007). Functional analytic Analítica Funcional [Innovations and contributions psychotherapy and the treatment of obsessive from Functional Analytic Psychotherapy]. Psicothema, compulsive disorder. Counseling Psychology 19, 452-458. Quarterly, 20, 105-114.

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