Chp16-P581-EndReverse Flashcards
The systematic use of principles of learning to increase the frequency of desired behaviours adn/or decrease the frequency of problem behaviours.
Behaviour therapy and Behaviour modification?
A technique used in therapy to substitute a new response for a maladaptive one by means of conditioning procedures.
Counter-conditioning?
A behavioural technique in which clients are exposed to the objects or situations that cause them anxiety.
Exposure therapy?
A behavioural therapy technique in which a client is taught to prevent the arousal of anxiety by confronting the feared stimulus while relaxed.
Systematic desensitisation?
A type of behavioural therapy used to treat individuals attracted to harmful stimuli; an attractive stimulus is paired with a noxious stimulus in order to elicit a negative reaction to the target stimulus.
Aversion therapy?
A general treatment strategy involving changing behaviour by modifying its consequences.
Contingency management?
A form of treatment in which clients observe models’ desirable behaviours being reinforced.
Social learning therapy?
A therapeutic technique in which a therapist demonstrates the desired behaviour and a client is aided, through supportive encouragement, to imitate the modelled behaviour.
Participant modelling?
Procedures used to establish and stengthen basic skills; as used in social-skills training programs, requires the client to rehearse a desirable behaviour sequence mentally.
Behavioural rehearsal?
A comprehensive system of personality change based on changing irrational beliefs that cause undesirable, highly charged emotional reactions such as severe anxiety.
Rational-emotive therapy (RET)?
A therapeutic approach that combines the cognitive emphasis on thoughts and attitudes with the behavioural emphasis on changing performance.
Cognitive behavioural therapy?
The therapy movement that encompasses all those practises and methods that release the potential of the average human being for greater levels of performance and greater richness of experience.
Human-potential movement?
A humanistic approach to treatment that emphasises the healthy psychological growth of the individual based on the assumption that all people share the basic tendency of human nature toward self-actualisation.
Self-actualisation (define) fulfilling one’s full potential
Client-centred therapy?
Therapy that focuses on ways to unite mind and body to make a person whole.
Gestalt Therapy?
The branch of psychology that investigates the effects of drugs on behaviour.
Psychopharmacology?
