Transtorno de ansiedade generalizada e terapia cognitivo-comportamental : desenvolvimento de um planner como instrumento terapêutico

Abstract

This work aims to develop a Communicational Graphic Artifact that serves as a daily tool for monitoring people diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, through Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. This psychotherapeutic approach has an educational character, seeking to help the patient to find new possibilities of behavior and thinking to deal more assertively with everyday situations. Thus, the artifact developed in this work is a planner (in Portuguese, planner), defined as a tool for personal and professional planning, designed for recording and organizing information, working as a facilitator that diagrams these data in a structured way. and affordable. For this, it was necessary to study, analyze and understand the factors involving the pathology and therapeutic techniques to help organize activities. The development of the project was guided by the methodologies of Sless, for Information Design and Zappaterra, for Editorial Design. Initially, an online interview was carried out with 35 people, which helped in defining the requirements to be achieved and, consequently, directed towards the elaboration of alternatives. The final result obtained reflects the needs of the public in question by including the artifact as a therapeutic aid.