The Role of Shaping the Client's Interpretations in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy.

Clinical behavior analysis often targets the shaping of clients' functional interpretations of/or rules about his own behavior. These are referred to as clinically relevant behavior 3 (CRB3) in functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP). We suggest that CRB3s should be seen as contingency-specifying stimuli (CSS), due to the their ability to change the function of stimuli-including descriptions of variables involved in the client's behavioral problems as well as descriptions of variables associated with improvement or therapeutic change.