Behaviour Therapy

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Applied behaviour analysis

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Another term for behaviour modification; this approach seeks to understand the causes of behavior and address these causes by changing antecedents and consequences

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Assertion Training

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A set of techniques that involves behavioral rehearsal, coaching, and learning more effective social skills; specific skills training procedures used to teach people ways to express both positive and negative feelings openly and directly

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BASIC I.D.

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The conceptual framework of multimodal therapy, based on the premise that human personality can be understood by assessing seven major areas of functioning: behavior, affective responses, sensations, images, cognitions, interpersonal relationships, and drugs/biological functions.

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Behaviour Modification

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A therapeutic approach that deals with analyzing and modifying human behaviour.

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Behavior Rehearsal

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A technique consisting of trying out in therapy new behaviors (performing target behaviors) that are to be used in everyday situations.

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Classical Conditioning

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Also known as Pavlovian conditioning and respondent conditioning. A form of learning in which a neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with a stimulus that naturally elicits a particular response. The result is that eventually the neutral stimulus alone elicits the response.

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Cognitive Behavioral Coping Skills Therapy

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Procedures aimed at teaching clients specific skills to deal effectively with problematic situations.

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Cognitive Processes

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Internal events such as thoughts, beliefs, perceptions, and self-statements

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Consequences

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Events that take place as a result of a specific behavior being performed

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Contingency Contracting

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Written agreement between a client and another person that specifies the relationships between performing target behaviors and their consequences

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy

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A blend of behavioral and psychoanalytic techniques that was primarily designed to treat borderline personality disorders.

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Exposure Therapy

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Treatment for anxiety and fear responses that exposes clients to situations or events that create the unwanted emotional responses

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Extinction

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When a previously reinforced behaviour is no longer followed by the reinforcing consequences, the result is a decrease in the frequency of a behaviour in the future

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Evidence-Based Treatments

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Interventions that have empirical evidence to support their use

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Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)

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An exposure-based therapy that involved imaginal flooding, cognitive restructuring, and the use of rhythmic eye movements and other bilateral stimulation to treat traumatic stress disorders and fearful memories of clients

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Flooding

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Prolonged and intensive in vivo or imaginal exposure to highly anxiety-evoking stimuli without the opportunity to avoid or escape from them

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Functional Assessment

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The process of generating information on the events preceeding and following the behavior in an attempt to determine which antecedents and consequences are associated with the occurrence of the behavior

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In vivo desensitization

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Brief and graduated exposure to an actual fear situation or event

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Modeling

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Learning through observation and limitation

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Multimodal therapy

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A model endorsing technical eclecticism; uses procedures drawn from various sources without necessarily subscribing to the theories behind these techniques; developed by Arnold Lazarus.

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Behavioral Assessment

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Collaborative Goal Setting

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Relaxation Training

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Role Modelling

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Scientific Method

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Negative Reinforcement

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The termination or withdrawal of an unpleasant stimulus as a result of performing some desired behavior

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Operant Conditioning

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A type of learning in which behaviors are influenced mainly by the consequences that follow them

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Positive reinforcement

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A form of conditioning whereby the individual receives something desirable as a consequence of his or her behavior, a reward that increases that probability of its recurrence

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Positive Reinforcer

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An event whose presentation increases that probability of a response that it follows

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Punishment

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The process in which a behaviour is followed by a consequences that results in a decrease in the future probability of a behavior

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Reinforcement

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A specified event that strengthens the tendency for a response to be repeated. It involves some kind of reward or the removal of an aversive stimulus following a response.

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Self-efficacy

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An individual’s belief or expectation that he or she can master a situation and bring about desired change

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Self-management

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A collection of cognitive behavioural strategies based on the idea that change can be brought about by teaching people to use coping skills in problematic situations such as anxiety, depression, and pain

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self-monitoring

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the process of observing one’s own behavior patterns as well as one’s interactions in various social situations

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Skills training

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A treatment package used to teach clients skills that include modeling, behavior rehearsal, and reinforcement

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Social Learning Theory

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A perspective holding that behavior is best understood by taking into consideration the social conditions under which learning occurs; developed primarily by Albert Bandura

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Systematic Desensitization

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A procedure based on the principles of classical conditioning in which the client is taught to relax while imagining a graded series of progressively anxiety arousing situations. Eventually, the client reaches a point at which the anxiety-producing stimulus no longer brings about the anxious response.