ESQUIZOFRENIA: SU ENTENDIMIENTO DESDE EL CONDUCTISMO Y ACEPTACIÓN PSICOLÓGICA

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that affects different brain functions in those who suffer from it; it is a phenomenon that increasingly causes greater interest in the population during the last years. The behavioral approach specified in this research is ordered by phases to be followed as an exploration of the possible difficulties in the psychosocial functioning of the person, description of the behavior-problem, functional analysis of the problem behavior, formulation of explanatory hypotheses, intervention and the evaluation of the results and follow-up. The present work is a bibliographic review with the objective of knowing and identifying how the behavioral perspective, in its different treatments, addresses said disease. The methodology was qualitative with a documentary approach and for this purpose the EBSCO, SCOPUS and Google academic databases were used. It is concluded that schizophrenia from the two main approaches of psychotic, neurobiological and psychological disorders expose that the symptoms of this disease have their reason for being in each person. Finally, it explains treatments and therapies that can be used in patients with this disorder.