Behavioural interventions Flashcards
What are the two behavioural interventions to treat addictions?
Aversion therapy
Covert sensitisation
What principles do behavioural interventions use?
Classical conditioning
Aim of aversion therapy?
Change the pleasurable association with the addictive substance and replace with an unpleasant association
What is a technique for smoking addiction in aversion therapy?
Rapid smoking
What does the patient do in rapid smoking?
Sit alone in a room and take a puff of a cigarette every 6 seconds
What will the patients associate smoking with after Rapid Smoking?
The feeling of being nauseous and sick
What is the unconditioned stimulus? (Rapid Smoking)
Unpleasant stimulus
What is the unconditioned response?(Rapid Smoking)
Nausea
What is the neutral stimulus? (Rapid Smoking)
Cigarettes
What becomes the conditioned stimulus? (Rapid Smoking)
Cigarettes
What becomes the conditioned response? (Rapid Smoking)
Nausea
What is used in aversion therapy for treating gambling addictions?
Electric shocks
How does the addict create the association of gambling to the shocks?
Thinks of phrases that relate to their gambling behaviour and when spoken aloud, they are administered a shock
What drug is someone given in aversion therapy for alcohol addiction?
Disulfiram
How does disulfiram affect an alcoholic?
Interfers with the bodily process of metabolising alcohol into harmless chemicals
