Behavioral Techniques Flashcards
What is Assertiveness Training based on?
The principle that we all have a right to express our thoughts, feelings, and needs to others, as long as we do so in a respectful way. The restrictions to do so may result in depression, anxiety, anger, and diminished sense of self-worth.
Define Aversion Therapy
A form of psychological treatment in which the patient is exposed to a stimulus while simultaneously being subjected to discomfort to cause the patient to associate the stimulus with unpleasant sensations to stop a specific behavior.
What is Behavioral Extinction?
Removing rewards to stop an undesired behavior.
What are Breathing Techniques used for?
To help manage anxiety and stress.
What is Clinical Modeling?
Therapeutic demonstration of desired behaviors.
What is Contingency Management?
A type of treatment used in MH & SA where patients are rewarded or punished for their behavior (Compliance/non-compliance to treatment planning and program rules).
What is the goal of Flooding therapy?
To expose the client to painful memories to reintegrate repressed emotions with current awareness.
What is Graduated Exposure Therapy and In-Vivo Desensitization synonymous with?
Systematic Desensitization.
Describe Implosion (or Implosive) Therapy.
Similar to flooding, but the patient imagines more extreme images of the anxiety-causing memory or stimulus.
What is In-Vivo Desensitization?
Also known as Systematic Desensitization, involving actual exposure to the phobic stimulus.
Define Paradoxical Intention.
The intentional practice of a neurotic habit or thought to identify and remove it.
What is Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) based on?
Emotional Processing Theory, positing that PTSD symptoms arise from cognitive and behavioral avoidance of trauma-related thoughts, reminders, activities, and situations.
What does Prolonged Exposure Therapy aim to accomplish?
To block cognitive and behavioral avoidance, introduce corrective information, and facilitate organization and processing of trauma memories via In Vivo and imagine exposure.
What is Response Cost?
Giving a negative consequence for an undesired behavior.
What is Sensate Focusing?
A set of specific sexual exercises aimed at increasing awareness of self and the other’s needs.
What is the goal of Systematic Desensitization?
To help effectively cope and overcome phobias in each step of the hierarchy.
What are the two methods of exposure in Systematic Desensitization?
In Vitro (imagined exposure) and In Vivo (actual exposure).
Fill in the blank: In Systematic Desensitization, one must first be taught _______ skills to extinguish fear, and anxiety responses to specific phobias.
[relaxation]
