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(9) tendency regulators' behavior

(12) one's own mediating behavior

(13) development of competencies/skills

(11) effects of one's own behavior on oneself

**c.** Alteration of one's own behavior includes user's changes according to his/her own

**d.** Alteration of macrocontingential practices consists of the possible changes of the user's

(17) another person's behavior that changes one's own and/or others' assessment practices

A general description of the contingential analysis was made in this chapter, trying to generate reader's interest in the topic. It overpasses our purpose to illustrate the full application of the analysis, but we recommend reading more about it. This methodology has been successfully applied in a clinical context with different main complaints such as parent-child relationships, fear to walk among elder people, violent familiar relationships, and couples' problems, among many others [15–18]; in a health context where with the basis of the psychological model of biological health and contingential analysis, several researches had been made to understand and change diabetes risk behaviors and HIV risk behaviors, among others [19–25]; in an education context, assessing instructional models to teach contingential analysis, analyzing therapeutic relationships, or developing educative educational workshops for diabetic patients [26–29]; and in a work context developing models and tools to

Considering the fact that the methodology results from an interbehavioral theory, that is, a general human behavior theory, it enables to approach behavior in different professional contexts, in a coherent manner with a scientific position and giving clarity, coherence, and relevance to the application of scientific knowledge; in this regard, this methodology constitutes an alternative to professional psychology. Also, the heuristic value of this approach and the link with basic science must be considered. If we go for a scientific psychology, we need to

consider that the adjective *applied* refers to basic and scientific knowledge.

**e.** Without change: this is the last category that refers to a lack of change by the user.

(14) establishment of behaviors that alter the effects of other behaviors

(15) own behavior that alters others' assessment practices

(16) own behavior to be adjusted to others' assessment practices

(10) mediators' behavior

assessment practice.

**8. Final comments**

assess laboral competences [30–32].

behavior.

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María de Lourdes Rodríguez Campuzano\*, Antonia Rentería Rodríguez and Norma Yolanda Rodríguez Soriano

\*Address all correspondence to: carmayu5@yahoo.com

Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, México
