Behavioural Treatments

Question 1

What is operant conditioning

Answer 1

Understand how behaviours are learned and maintained

Modify or change behaviours

Question 2

What is behaviour modification designed to do

Answer 2

Increase frequency of existing adaptive behaviours

Decrease frequency of existing maladaptive behaviours

Teach new appropriate behaviours

Question 3

When is Applied Behaviour Analysis techniques used

Answer 3

To improve language and communicative behaviours

Question 4

What is systematic desensitisation

Answer 4

Bases on graded exposure and counter-conditioning

-ENtails training the patient in deep muscle relaxation; constructing a hierarchy of anxiety-producing situations and presenting each situation to the imagination of the person in a relaxed. non-anxious state

Question 5

What is Beck’s negative triad

Answer 5

Negative thoughts about:

• oneself
• the world
• The future

Question 6

What is cognitive reactivity

Answer 6

degree to which a mild dysphoric state reactivates negative thinking patterns, and it has been found to play a key causal role in depressive relapse.