Habit Disorders

Question 1

Define Habit Disorders

Answer 1

Habits of such intensity that they cause personal harm or significant social problems for a person

Question 2

Four components of habit reversal:

Answer 2

awareness training; competing responses training; social support; motivation procedures

Question 3

What is awareness training?

Answer 3

Teaching the individual to recognise when a habit is occuring

Question 4

What is the first step in awareness training?

Answer 4

Working with the client to operationally define the behaviour

Question 5

What is the second step in awareness training?

Answer 5

teach the person to identify the onset of the behaviour (or when it is about to happen)

Question 6

For the person to identify habits it may be necessary to help them understand the ____ that precede behaviour or point out behaviour’s ____

Answer 6

antecedents; occurence

Question 7

Competing response training teaches clients…

Answer 7

behaviours that are incompatible with the problem behaviour

Question 8

A behaviour that is incompatible with the response training is called…

Answer 8

a competing response

Question 9

First the competing response is practised for ___ - __ minutes after each occurrence of ____ ____

Answer 9

1-3 minutes; problem behaviour

Question 10

Try to make the competing response ____ to others. Ask clients to imagine situations…

Answer 10

unnoticeable; in which s/he is likely to use the competing response

Question 11

Finally, following competing response training the client is instructed…

Answer 11

to use the response whenever the habit occurs (or is about to)

Question 12

Social support is necessary because…

Answer 12

individuals may not realise when they’re engaging in the behaviour

Question 13

Helping the client identify when a habit is occurring and prompting competing responses are part of which component?

Answer 13

Social support

Question 14

What component deals with providing motivation for behavioural change?

Answer 14

Motivation strategies

Question 15

Motivation strat: Asking the client to identify situations…

Answer 15

where the behaviour has embarrassed or inconvenienced them previously

Question 16

Motivation strat: Ask the client how their lives…

Answer 16

would be different if they didn’t engage in the behaviour

Question 17

Motivation strat: Use _____ reinforcement from others

Answer 17

social

Question 18

Awareness training is tied to the principle of

Answer 18

stimulus control

Question 19

Competing responses are tied to the basic principles of… (2 answers)

Answer 19

• DRA (reinf’t of alternative)

- Punish’t (in the form of over-correction)

Question 20

Give a limitation to the use of habit reversal procedures

Answer 20

cannot be used with some populations (young children, learning disabilities) as they cannot effectively engage in required skills