Behavior Therapy

Question 1

Four Aspects of Behaviour Therapy

Answer 1

1) classical conditioning
2) operant conditioning
3) social learning approach
4) cognitive behavior therapy

Question 2

classical conditioning

Answer 2

Pairing random stimulus with another one. Think of Pavlov.

Question 3

social learning approach

Answer 3

learning through observation in a social setting.

Question 4

The “3 C’s”

Answer 4

1) counterconditioning 2) contingency management 3) cognitive-behavior modification

Question 5

Counterconditioning

Answer 5

• builds on Pavlov’s work
• systematic desensitization
• assertiveness training

Question 6

Contingency management

Answer 6

• changes the contingiencies that follow and control behavior.
  If you clean your room everyday, then you will get dessert at dinner.

Question 7

Cognitive-behavior modification

Answer 7

• cognitive explanations/cognitive techniques
• cognitive restructuring, stress inoculation
  focuses on changing negative self-talk to positive self-talk

Question 8

Theory of Human Nature in Behaviorism

Answer 8

• the primacy of behavior: a concentration on overt behavior in particular
• the importance of learning - all behavior is learned both adaptive and maladaptive
• directive and active nature of treatments
• the importance of assessments
• learning can be an effective means of changing maladaptive behavior
• therapeutic goals are well-defined
• maladaptive behavior itself is seen as the problem that needs to be changed rather than underlying causes
• behaviorists stress the importance of obtaining empirical evidence and support for the techniques used.

Question 9

Theory of Psychopathology - Behavioral

Answer 9

• anxiety is a response of the sympathetic nervous system
• anxiety is the cause of most behavioral disorders
• anxiety can be conditioned to any stimuli
• thoughts associated with threatening stimuli can elicit anxiety

Question 10

Goals of behavioral therapy

Answer 10

• modify or eliminate maladaptive behaviors while helping them acquire healthy behaviors
• unproductive actions must be replaced with productive ways of responding

Question 11

Therapeutic processes - Behavioral

Answer 11

• anxiety can be unlearned through counterconditioning
• do the opposite of the problem and the problem will disappear (reciprocal inhibition)

Question 12

A-B-C Model

Answer 12

Antecedent - Behavior - Consequence

Question 13

Therapeutic behavioral techniques

Answer 13

Relaxation training, assertion training, systematic desensitization, social skills training, modelling, self-management programs

Question 14

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Answer 14

• developed as an outpatient treatment for BPD
• principles drawn from behavior and cognitive therapies w/ acceptance and mindfulness adopted from meditation practices
• 1-2 times/week, skills training in group setting

Question 15

Points of departure between psychoanalytic therapy and behavior therapy

Answer 15

• focuses on behaviors, not on the essence of who you are

Question 16

Limitations of behavior therapy

Answer 16

• takes out the emotional aspect of it
• shame cycle?

Question 17

________ causes most behavioral disorders.

Answer 17

Anxiety

Question 18

Two critical tasks comprise effective counterconditioning

Answer 18

1) find a response that is incompatible with anxiety (i.e., deep-muscle relaxation) and that can be paired with the stimuli to evoke anxiety. Do the healthy opposite of the problem.
2) begin with stimuli that is low on a generalization gradient.

Question 19

Theory of Psychopathology - Contingency Management

Answer 19

• human behavior, whether adaptive or maladaptive, is largely controlled by its consequences.
• maladaptive responses likely to continue if followed by reinforcements. Less likely to continue if followed by punishments

Question 20

Therapeutic Processes - Contingency Management

Answer 20

• control contingencies in order to shape the adaptive behavior and extinguish the maladaptive behavior
• who (institutional control, self-control, mutual control) and what (type of consequence being controlled) of contingency management

Question 21

Theory of Psychopathology - Cognitive Behavioral

Answer 21

psychopathology is due to deficits, excesses, or inappropriateness in cognitions

Question 22

Therapeutic Processes CBT

Answer 22

• increase client’s awareness by providing the necessary information
• biofeedback techniques
• 3 attributional styles of stability, internality, and globality

Question 23

Therapeutic Relationship CBT

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• validation, rather than person-centered empathy
• less concerned with accurate empathy, more concerned with accurate treatment
• must invoke modeling to the client

Question 24

4 Principles of DBT

Answer 24

1. Mindfulness
2. Emotion regulation
3. Distress tolerance
4. Interpersonal effectiveness