Abstract

VERA-VILLARROEL, PABLO; VALENZUELA, PILAR; ABARCA, OCTAVIO  and  RAMOS, NADIA. EVALUACIÓN DE UNA INTERVENCIÓN CONDUCTUAL INTENSA Y BREVE PARA EL MANEJO DE ESTADOS EMOCIONALES: UN ESTUDIO PILOTO. Act.Colom.Psicol. [online]. 2005, vol.8, n.1, pp.121-132. ISSN 0123-9155.

In the last years, the evaluation of the effectiveness of the interventions in Clinical Psychology has charged great relevance. At the present time it is has denominated therapies supported in the evidence or therapies with empiric support, who are those that show a series of minimum approaches that assure their effectiveness. In this sense, the conductual therapies are those that have more support. Among the populations with more risk to present emotional dysfunctions are the secondary professors. In the line of prevention it is has designed a group intervention in intensive and brief format of five sessions of four hours of duration. The used techniques were: Psicoeducation, Relaxation, Cognitive Restructuration, Problem Resolution, Planning of Activities and Conductual Essay. This intervention was applied in group format to ten professors without psychological dysfunction, with a 30 year-old average. The results indicated a significant statistically change in the depression variables (t=3,527; p <0.01), anxiety-state (t=4,256; p <0.001) and assertivity (t=2,280; p <0.05), they were not changes in anxiety feature and optimism.

Keywords : therapies based on the evidence; empirically supported treatments; Group therapy; Depression; Anxiety; professors.

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