Behavioral Approach

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Focus on observable behavior, current determinants of behavior, learning experiences that promote change, tailoring treatment strategies to individual clients, and rigorous assessment and evaluation.

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Behavior Therapy

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Grounded on a scientific view of human behavior that implies a systematic and structured approach to counseling.

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Modern Behavior Therapy

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Rests on the current view that the person is the producer and the product of his or her environment.

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Modern Behavior Therapy

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Therapeutic Goals of Behavioral Therapy

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To increase personal choice
To create new conditions for learning

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Identify the maintaining conditions by systematically gathering information.

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Behavioral Analysis

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suggests that behavior is influenced by some particular events that precede t called antecedents and by certain events that follow it called consequences.

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ABC Model

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Ones that cues or elicit a certain behavior

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Antecedent Event

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Events that maintain a behavior in some way either by increasing or decreasing it.

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Consequences

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What are the 7 therapeutic techniques and procedures?

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1. Applied Behavioral Analysis: Operant Conditioning Techniques
2. Relaxation Training and Related Methods
3. In VIvo Exposure and Flooding
4. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
5. Social Skills Training
6. Self-modification Programs and Self-directed Behavior
7. Multimodal Therapy: Clinical Behavior Therapy

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offers functional approach to understanding clients’ problems and addresses these problems by changing antecedents and consequnces.

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Applied Behavioral Analysis: Operant Conditioning Techniques

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A method of teaching people to cope with the stresses produced by daily living

involves several components that typically require from 4 to 8 hours of instruction

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Relaxation Training and Related Methods

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A form of exposure therapy an and appropriate technique for treating phobias.

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Systemic Desensitzation

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Steps in Systemic Desensitization

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1. Relaxation Training
2. Development of the Anxiety Hierarchy
3. Systemic Desensitization Proper

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What are included in vivo exposure and flooding?

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Exposure Therapies
Vivo Exposure
Flooding

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involves systematic confrontation with a feared
stimulus, either through imagination or in vivo
(live).

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Exposure Therapies

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involves client exposure to the actual
anxiety-evoking events rather than simply
imagining these situations.

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Vivo Exposure

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A form of exposure therapy that refers to either in
vivo or imaginal exposure to anxiety-evoking
stimuli for a prolonged period of time.

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Flooding

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Consists of intense and prolonged exposure to
the actual anxiety-producing stimuli.

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Vivo Flooding

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based on similar principles and follows the
same procedures except the exposure occurs in
the client’s imagination instead of in daily life

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Imaginal Flooding

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A form of exposure therapy that involves imaginal
flooding, cognitive restructuring, and the use of
rapid, rhythmic eye movements and other
bilateral stimulation to treat clients who have
experienced traumatic stress.

Designed to assist clients in dealing with
posttraumatic stress disorders

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Eye Movement Desensitization
and Reprocessing (EMDR)

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Deals with an individual’s ability to interact effectively with others in various social situations; it is used to correct deficits clients have in interpersonal competencies

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Social Skills Training

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Popular variation of social skills training

Designed for individuals who have trouble with
aggressive behavior

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Anger Management Training

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↳For people who lack assertive skills
↳ One specialized form of social skills training that
has gained increasing popularity
↳ Basic assumption underlying assertion training is
that people have the right (but not the obligation)
to express themselves

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Assertion Training

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(1) make the choice of whether to behave
assertively in certain situations, (2) teaching
people to express themselves in ways that reflect
sensitivity to the feelings and rights of others.

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Assertion Training

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↳ Include self-monitoring, self-reward, self contracting, stimulus control, and self-as-model. ↳ Change can be brought about by teaching people to use coping skills in problematic situations.

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Self-Modification Programs and Self-Directed Behavior

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Steps in Self-Modification Programs and Self-Directed Behavior

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1. Selecting goals 2. Translating goals into target behaviors 3. Self-monitoring 4. Working out a plan for change 5. Evaluating an action plan

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➹ Self-change efforts are frequently doomed to failure from the outset by these unrealistic expectations, but individuals often continue to try and try in the hope that they will eventually succeed in changing a behavioral pattern. ➹ Many people who develop some kind of self-modification program encounter repeated failure.

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False-Hope Syndrome

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↳ A comprehensive, systematic, holistic approach to behavior therapy developed by Arnold Lazaruz ↳ grounded in social learning and cognitive theory and applies diverse behavioral techniques to a wide range of problems.

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Multimodal Therapy: Clinical Behavior Therapy

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The cognitive map linking each aspect of personality. Complex personality of human beings can be divided into seven major areas of functioning: B.A.S.I.C. I.D.

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The BASIC I.D

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Four Major Approaches in the Recent Development of the Behavioral Tradition

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1. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) 2. Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) 3. Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) 4. Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT)

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↳ Developed to help clients regulate emotions and behavior associated with depression, this paradoxical treatment helps clients to accept their emotions as well as to change their emotional experience

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

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↳ Include sitting meditation and mindful yoga, which are aimed at cultivating mindfulness. ↳ includes a body scan meditation that helps clients to observe all the sensations in their body.

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Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

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↳ aimed primarily at treating depression

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Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

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↳ Involves fully accepting present experience and mindfully letting go of obstacles ↳ Based on encouraging clients to accept, rather than attempt to control or change, unpleasant sensations.

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Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT)

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not merely tolerance—rather it is the active nonjudgmental embracing of experience in the here and now.

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Acceptance

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involves making mindful decisions about what is important in life and what the person is willing to do to live a valued life.

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Commitment

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Five general approaches can be applied to the practice of behavioral groups:

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➹ social skills training groups ➹ psychoeducational groups w/ specific themes ➹ stress management groups ➹ multimodal group therapy ➹ mindfulness and acceptance-based behavior therapy in groups