Behaviour Therapy Flashcards
Basic philosophy of behaviour therapy is…?
Behaviour is the product of learning, we are a product and producer of our environment, traditional behaviour therapy based on classical and operant conditioning.
Who are the key founders of behaviour therapy?
B.F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, and Arnold, A. Lazarus
Key concepts of behaviour therapy
Focus on behaviour, specify goals and treatment plan with objective evaluation. Give attention to present behaviour, based on principles of learning theory. Normal behaviour learnt through reinforcement and imitation, abnormal behaviour is the result of faulty learning.
Therapeutic goals of behaviour therapy
Eliminate maladaptive behaviours and learn effective behaviours. Identify influencing factors in maladaptive behaviour. Encourage clients to take and active role in setting and evaluating treatment goals.
Therapeutic relationship in behaviour therapy
Active, directive therapist functioning as a teacher and mentor in helping clients learn effective behaviours. Clients play active role in experimenting with new behaviours. Client-therapist relationship important and essential but not sufficient enough on it’s own.
Behaviour therapy techniques
Reinforcement, shaping, modelling, systematic desensitization, relaxation, flooding, eye movement and desensitization reprocessing, cognitive restructuring, assertion and social skills training, self management programs, mindfulness and acceptance methods, behavioural rehearsal, and coaching. Focus on how, what and when, typically not why. Homework and contracts often used.
Application approaches of behaviour therapy
Based on empirical validation of results. Wide applicability to individuals, groups, couples and families. Well suited to phobias, depression, trauma, sexual dissorders, children’s behavioural dissorders, stuttering and prevention of cardiovascular deisease. Applied in paediatrics, stress management, behavioural medicine, education and geriatrics.
Behaviour therapy and multicultural counselling
+focus on behaviour not feelings making it compatible with multiple cultures, collaborative client-therapist relationship, mutually agreed upon goals, continuous assessment of goals.
-new found assertiveness frowned upon by family, clients need to be taught to cope with resistance, need to assess consequences of behavioural changes
Contributions and limitations of behaviour therapy
+emphasis on assessment and evaluation techniques. Keep clients informed. Identify specific problems. Effective in many areas. Expansion in research making room for cognition and self direction. Explicit role of therapist as teacher, role model, consultant.
-changes behaviour but not feelings, ignores relational factors. Ignores causes of behaviours. Limited in capacity to address certain aspects of human condition.
What is classical conditioning?
●In classical conditioning certain respondent behaviors, such as knee jerks and salivation, are elicited from a passive organism
What is operant conditioning?
Focuses on actions that operate on the environment to produce consequences
Social-Learning Approach
Gives prominence to the reciprocal interactions between an individual’s behavior and the environment
Cognitive behavioural therapy
Emphasizes cognitive processes and private events (such as a client’s self-talk) as mediators of behavior change
Assessment of behaviour in behaviour therapy?
A-antecedent
B-behaviour
C-consequences
In Vivo desensitization
Brief and graduated exposure to an actual fear situation or event
