Froján Parga María Xesús, Alpañés Freitag Manuel, Calero Elvira Ana, Vargas de la Cruz Ivette
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Psicología, Madrid, Spain.
Psicothema. 2010 Nov;22(4):556-61.
Motivation has traditionally been conceptualized as something situated inside the person, which might explain certain behaviors and play a causal role in overt changes in behavior. This type of approach was assumed by the Transtheoretical Model of Change and Motivational Interviewing in the area of clinical and health psychology. In contrast, the behavioral concept of establishing operation is defined as a stimulus or environmental operation that momentarily alters the functions of other stimuli and the response probability, which allows us to study motivation without making inferences or assuming a cognitivist terminology. From this point of view, the study of motivation in therapy implies the analysis of the effect that certain verbalizations of the therapist have on the client's behavior. Moreover, we propose that the analysis of therapists' motivating verbalizations should focus on descriptions of the past, present and future consequences of the client's behavior.
传统上，动机被概念化为存在于个体内部的某种东西，它可能解释某些行为，并在行为的明显变化中起到因果作用。临床与健康心理学领域的跨理论模型和动机访谈就采用了这种方法。相比之下，建立操作的行为概念被定义为一种刺激或环境操作，它会瞬间改变其他刺激的功能和反应概率，这使我们能够在不进行推断或不采用认知主义术语的情况下研究动机。从这个角度来看，对治疗中动机的研究意味着分析治疗师的某些言语对来访者行为的影响。此外，我们建议，对治疗师激励性言语的分析应聚焦于对来访者行为的过去、现在和未来后果的描述。
