HC 1: Exposure and Behavioural Activation Flashcards
Exposure and Behavioral Activation
Waves of behavioural therapy
WAVE 1
- Behaviorism
- observable behavior (not internal states)
- based on conditioning
WAVE 2
- cognitive (behavioral) therapy
- mental processes play a role in learning
- integrate cognitive processing
Cognitive part of CBT
Psychological problems are partly based on unhelpful ways of thinking
What is exposure therapy?
Purposely generating anxiety by exposing individual repeatedly to fear provoking stimuli
Behavior part of CBT
Psychological problems are partly based on learned patterns of unhelpful behavior
What is the working mechanism of exposure therapy?
Client is repeatedly exposed with fear provoking stimuli
-> the feared outcome is not coming true
- > extinction of fear! Eventually no fear.
Classical conditioning
NS + UCS/UCR (not learned)
BECOMES
CS + CR (learned)
it is passive learning
Operant conditioning
active learning: learning consequences of behavior through rewards or punishment with (not) reinforcing behavior
Classical vs operant conditioning
CLASSICAL = passive learning, fear is ACQUIRED
OPERANT = active learning, fear is MAINTAINED
Positive Reinforcement
Increases behavior by adding nice stimuli
Negative Reinforcement
Increases behavior by
- Escaping: removing hurtful stimuli
or
- Active avoidance: behavior avoids bad stimuli
This happens with an anxiety disorder!
Positive Punishment
Decreasing behavior by adding bad stimuli
Negative Punishment
Decreasing behavior by removing nice stimuli
What is a fear structure (in anxiety disorder)?
How fear is programmed in our minds
- anx; harmless stimuli and responses are false viewed as dangerous
There are 3 types of information within fear structure
- Info about feared stimulus
- Info about fear responses (verbal/behav/physio)
- Meaning of stimuli and an individuals response
Emotional Processing Theory
by Kozak & Foa
