Instrumentos psicológicos na era virtual: uma adaptação digital do questionário de esquemas de Young – versão breve

Abstract

The Schema Therapy (ST) has proven to be one of the most popular branches within the clinical psychology scenario. Like other branches of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, ST, proposed by Jeffrey E. Young, uses several psychological instruments to identify maladaptive schemas present on adult patients. This study aimed to adapt the Young Schema Questionnaire – Short Form 3 (YSQ – S3), one of the main instruments used in the branch as an aid in the process of investigation and diagnosis of patients to a digital interface. For this purpose, the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigm and Java as the programming language were used to follow the guidelines for digital adaptation of tests proposed by The International Test Commission (ITC). At the end of the study, a functional adaptation of the questionnaire was achieved, with a version destined to the patient and another one for the psychologist. Although the software’s created run as expected, they failed to comply with some of the ITC guidelines, mainly those related to security, prevention of failure due to human error and accessibility. However, these issues can be easily fixed in future versions of the software, especially with the support of more experienced developers.