INTERVIEW GUIDELINE FOR FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS IN TRANSSEXUAL PERSONS

Abstract

Transsexuality is an emerging phenomenon. There are therefore few psychological assessment tools for it. The purpose of this article is to show the professional clinical psychology and social intervention community a tool that could facilitate this task. We begin with a brief introduction to the phenomenon of transsexuality and psychological assessment in this field, which almost always concentrates on diagnosis or other variables, generally personality (personality traits, depression, anxiety, etc.). Then we approach the main problems found in a transsexual person during the transition. These problems are a potential or real source of psychological conflict. After this we briefly describe behavioral assessment which has been quite forgotten in this area. Finally, we propose a new instrument for this assessment. The main result is the Interview Guideline for Functional Behavior Sequence Analysis (FBSA). We conclude that there is a need for more behavior assessment in this field.

Keywords

• Transsexuality
• Transgenderism
• Assessment
• Functional analysis.