Treatment & Intervention Flashcards
Two techniques in classical conditioning
Counterconditioning & classical extinction
What do behaviourists believe psychopathology comes from?
problematic learned patterns
What approach is the term reciprocal inhibition from?
Counterconditioning in classical conditioning
What is covert sensitization
it’s aversive counterconditioning in imagination
Aversive counterconditioning is used for what?
eliminating “bad behaviours” like drinking, smoking & fetishes
What happens to the conditioned stimulus in aversive counterconditioning?
The conditioned stimulus is paired with a new & stronger stimulus (like antabuse with alcohol)
What’s the downfall of aversive conditioning?
it is not effective in the long-run/high rates of relapse/recidivism
What was systematic desensitization designed for and who designed it?
specific phobias & it was designed by Wolpe
What does systematic desensitization involve?
Training clients to relax deeply & using anxiety hierarchies to expose them gradually using either in-vivo or imagination
What recent research has found that’s more effective than systematic desensitization?
Prolonged & flooding is most efficacious, while systematic desensitization is second most effective
What category of interventions does sensate focus come from & who was it developed by?
Counterconditioning & Masters and Johnson
What are the 4 stages of Master & Johnson’s sexual response cycle?
- Excitement
- Plateau
- Orgasm
- Resolution
What category of interventions does Assertiveness Training come from, and what is it used for?
Counterconditioning & social anxiety
What’s the treatment involved with Assertiveness Training?
practicing assertive responses antagonist to social anxiety
What is classical conditioning in relation to the conditioned stimulus/unconditioned stimulus, and how does it affect the UR (e.g., spider phobia)
Presenting the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus with the goal of exposure making conditioned stimulus not elicit the conditioned response
E.g., spider (CS) elicits screaming from someone (US), so person is exposed to the spider while preventing them from running away until they no longer are screaming (US) or running away (UR)
What is implosive therapy by Stampl
Imaginal exposure while the therapist interprets possible psychosexual themes (did not add to treatment effectiveness)
What type of treatment approach involves a functional assessment & what is a functional assessment?
- Operant conditioning
- Defining target behaviour, determining antecedents & consequences & contingencies (reinforcers & punishments)
3 types of reinforcers & what do they mean?
- Primary: reinforcers that reinforce everyone (food)
- Secondary: training or experience help acquire their reinforcing value (praise)
- Generalized Conditioned: they give access to other reinforcers (money or tokens)
Shaping (reinforcement intervention strategy)
reinforced every step taken toward the target behaviour
Token Economies (reinforcement intervention strategy)
When tokens (a generalized conditioned reinforcer) are used in a system like jail, they are given for appropriate behaviours and can be exchanged for reinforcers like goods or privileges; on the other hand, tokens can be taken away for undesirable behaviours.
Contingency Contracting (reinforcement intervention strategy)
Negotiating a contract when there’s problematic interactions between people to identify the behaviours they want from one another
Premack Principle with example (reinforcement intervention strategy)
using a high-frequency behaviour to reinforce a low-frequency behaviour (e.g., eat peas before playing)
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviours or DRO or DRA or DRI (reinforcement intervention strategy)
combining operant extinction (stop reinforcement) with positive reinforcement (e.g., ignored if speaking without raising hand (extinction) & reinforced for desirable behaviours like raising hanf or waiting turn (positive reinforcement)
Self-reinforcement (reinforcement intervention strategy)
administering reinforcement to oneself - eating a candy after reading a textbook chapter or page
Positive punishment (Aversive control of behaviour - operant conditioning) & example of it’s use with an elastic band
applying aversive stimulus after an undesirable behaviour
e.g., thought stopping - hitting arm with an elastic band with undesirable thought
Difference between escape learning & avoidance learning (Aversive control of behaviour - operant conditioning)
Escape learning: stopping the aversive stimulus while it’s happening through a desirable behaviour (lady giving wallet when at gunpoint)
Avoidance learning: engaging in a desirable behaviour to fully avoid an aversive stimulus before it happens (paying credit card on time before late penalty)
Overcorrection (Aversive control of behaviour - operant conditioning)
involves reparation from what they’ve done with the addition of repairs beyond the initial thing they’ve needed to repair & may include with physical guidance (e.g., kid cleaning up the living room they messed up plus also cleaning a bathroom)
Three approaches based on Social Learning Theory
- Symbolic modelling: watching a film of a model engaging/enjoying interactions with a feared object or anxiety-producing setting
- Live or in-vivo modelling: showing it live through a model
- Participant modelling: live modelling plus contact with/guidance from the model (best for kids with phobias)
Kohler’s studies contributed to what aspect of cognitive-behaviourism?
found that chimps have insight/”aha” moments where their cognitive processes influence their behaviours to solve problems
Ellis’ ABC-DEF model
A- activating event
B - belief
C - consequence
D - disputing intervention
E - effective philosophy/belief
F - new feelings
Two terms for Ellis’ therapy
REBT (rational emotive behaviour therapy) or RET (rational-emotive therapy)
What did Ellis’ therapy involve, and how was it approached?
Convincing clients they are being irrational & using argumentative/confrontational approaches
Who/what therapy uses empirical hypothesis testing
Beck’s cognitive therapy
Beck’s cognitive therapy approach involves what two key elements?
- Testing the validity of beliefs
- Socratic questioning
Beck’s maladaptive cognitive triad of depression
- Negative view of self
- Negative view of world
- Negative view of future
What’s Meichenbaum’s approach called?
Cognitive behavioural modification (CBM)
Meichenbaum’s two treatment approaches are as follows: What are they for & what are they effective for?
- Self-instruction therapy - helping clients master problem-solving independently (effective for kids with ADHD)
- Stress-inoculation training - mastering stress gradually by helping coping with milder stressors to decrease susceptibility to more severe stress (effective for PTSD)
Relapse prevention is associated with what treatment approach from Meichenbaum’s cognitive behavioural modification?
Meichenbaum’s stress inoculation training
How Rehm’s Self-Control Model of Depression understands what 3 things contribute to depression
He understands depression as a combination of negative self-evaluations, lack of self-reinforcement & high rates of self-punishment
Marlatt’s relapse prevention - how it understands addiction & relapse
understands addiction as an overlearned habit and that relapse is unavoidable
Marlatt’s relapse prevention - what does it understand as the most common relapse trigger?
A client’s internal state/negative emotional state
Freud’s 3 parts of personality (no definitions)
- Id
- Ego
- Superego
The ID (Freud):
- what it’s ruled by
- principle
- perception of gratification/long-term consequences
- two instincts within it
Ruled by instincts & biological drives
Pleasure principle
Doesn’t think of the long-term consequences
1. Libido is the life instinct/Eros
2. Aggression is the death instinct/Thanatos
The Ego (Freud):
- principle
- perception of gratification/long-term gratification
- it’s main task
- Reality principle
- Defers immediate gratification to obtain greater long-term gratification
- It’s main task is to suspend/control Id impulses
Superego (Freud):
- what it involves
- what is its weapon?
- evolves as the child passes through which stage?
- moral codes/internalized parental & societal standards
- guilt
- Oedipal stage
Alloplastic defence & connected to what disorders?
reacts to stress by trying to change or blame the environment (borderline or narcissistic)
Autoplastic defence & connected to what disorders
reacts to stress by trying to change oneself or blaming oneself (depression or anxiety)
3 Ego Psychologists
- Hartmann: ego & id co-develop in parallel
- Anna Freud: ego is a medium for id & superego - interpretation of kids’ words instead of play & strong positive bond development
- Erikson: epigenetic sequences where development happens in stages
What’s Hartmann’s term that’s opposite of defensive ego functions?
“ego autonomous functions,” which is a conflict-free sphere for functions developing outside of conflict like perception, learning, memory & locomotion
What is object constancy of Object Relations Theory/Therapy?
The experience of the other in an integrated way, the good & the bad together - the opposite of this is splitting (borderline’s do this in how they see therapists - good one week & bad the other week)
Major object relations theorists
Klein, Winnicott & Mahler
What did Klein see as a major defense mechanism?
Splitting - seeing something as only good or only bad (which prevents object constancy: seeing the breast as an object with both good & bad capacities)
How did Klein understand children’s play?
She saw it as the child’s free association
Winnicott’s understanding of what results in pathology?
Abandoning one’s true self & adopting a false sense
Mahler’s theory describes what two processes?
The processes of separation (physically separating themselves from their mom) & individuation (psychologically independent people, which involves maturation)
Kohut’s primary narcissism
It’s a healthy kind of narcissism that happens when a baby naturally focuses on getting its own needs met