Chapter 14 Behavior Psychotherapy Flashcards
What behavioral principle did Edward Thorndike and B.F. Skinner discover
Operant conditioning
Goals of behavior psychotherapy
Observable behavior change
Empiricism-human behavior should be scientist
Collection of emprical data
How does a behavioral psychotherapist define mental health problems
Clients behaviors are not symptoms of some underlying problem, behaviors are the problem
Exposure therapy
Used to treat anxiety disorders and essentially involves the client facing their fears
Two different methods used in working through a fear hierarchy
Imaginal exposure— imagining anxiety provoking situations
In Vito exposure — exposing the clients to real-life items or situations
What is a fear hierarchy
A list in which anxiety producing experiences are listed in ranked order from least to moat anxiety-provoking
what is systematic desensitization
Involves pairing the feared object with a new response that blocks the fear response
What relaxation techniques are used for systematic desensitization
Progressive muscle relaxation
Before each exposure the client achieves a relaxed state
What is exposure and response prevention? And what does it treat?
Expose the individual to what they are afraid of and prevent them from performing their typical response
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OCD
What is prolonged exposure and what does it treat?
Teaches individuals to gradually approach their trauma-related memories, feeling and situations
PTSD
What is assertiveness training
Specific application of classical conditions that targets clients social anxiety
Elects of exposure therapy
Contingencies
The “if… then…” statements connection actions to outcomes
What is applied behavior analysis
Evidence based therapy used primary for diagnosis of autism
Contingency management
Reinforcement
Any consequence that makes behavior more likely to recur in the future
Punishment
Any consequence that makes a behavior less like Ty to recur in the future
Extinction
The removal of an expected reinforcement that results in a decrease in the frequency of a behavior
Extinction burst
The initial increase in intensity of the unwanted behavior immediately after expected reinforcement is removed
Token economy
A setting in which clients can earn tokens for participating in predetermined target behaviors
Shaping
Reinforcing successive approximations of the target behavior
Baby steps
Behavioral activation
Treats depression
List of rewarding behaviors by reinforcing day to day activities
What is behavioral consultation
An indirect way to modify a clients behavior
The client, the consultee (spends time with client), and the consultant (the therapist)
Parent training
Parents seek to help with problemative behaviors of their own children
Token economies, time out, loss of privileges
