Internalized Homophobia in a Gay Male Through the Lens of Contextual Behaviorism: A Case Example

Date of Award

Spring 6-10-2016

Document Type

Doctoral Research Paper

Degree Name

Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology

Organizational Unit

Graduate School of Professional Psychology

First Advisor

Terri M. Davis

Second Advisor

Hale Martin

Third Advisor

Melissa Henston

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

All Rights Reserved
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Keywords

Functional contextualism, Functional relations, Internalized homophobia, Middle aged gay male

Abstract

Hypothetical constructs are used in many traditional psychological theories to explain causal relationship, behavior, and psychological events. These events typically occur in realms outside of an observable event fields and create a dualistic account of causation. Functional contextualism eschews the use of hypothetical constructs and instead relies on the use of abstractive constructs to describe functional relations in observable event fields to understand behavioral relationships through a monistic framework. This paper provides a theoretical example of conceptualizing the abstractive construct of internalized homophobia from a behavioral lens. A case example has been provided to help illustrate case conceptualization of internalized homophobia from a behavioral perspective and details behavioral interventions used with a middle aged gay male during the course of treatment.

Copyright Date

6-7-2016

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.

Rights Holder

Stephen Chase Martin

Provenance

Received from Author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

43 pgs

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