behavior therapy

what is behavior therapy

• clinical procedures that rely on experimental findings of psychological research

• based on principles of systematically applied learning

• the treatment goals are specific and measurable

• focuses on client’s current problem like help adjust maladaptive behaviors

• the therapy mostly educational to help clients skills to self management

types of exposure therapies

• in vivo desentization

brief exposure to the trauma

• flooding

prolonged and more intensive form of in vivo to the trauma with no oppurtunity to avoid them

• eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

exposure based therapy involving imaginal flooding, cognitive restructing and use of ryhthmic eye movement and other bilateral stimulation to treat the disorders and traumas

4 aspects of behavior therapy

• classical conditioning

conditioning certain respondent behaviors by pavlov

• operant conditioning

focus on actions that will produce the consequences by bf skinner

• social learning

focus on the reciprocal interaction between individual’s behavior and environment by bandura

• cognitive behavior therapy

focus on cognitive processes and private events as mediators of behavior change

therapeutic tehcniqeus ( ada 11 )

• relaxation training ( cope stress )

• systematic desensitization ( for anxiety and avoidance reaction )

• modeling ( observational learning )

• assertion training ( learn to express yourself )

• social skills training ( learn to improve interpersonal skills )

• self management programs

• multimodal therapy - technical eclectism

• applied behavior analysis ( train new wanted behavior to those developmentally delayed )

• dialectical behavior therapy ( learn emotional regulation and mindful for BPD patients /0

• mindfulness based stress reduction ( meditation n yoga )

• acceptance n commitment therapy ( learn to accept and produce non judgemental thoughts )

application of behavior therapy to group counselling

treatments

• rely on empirical support

• focus on self management skills and thoughts restructuring

• mostly brief

leader

• use brief, directive and educational approach

• conduct behavioral assessments

leaders n members

• create collaborative n precise treatment goals

• create specific treatment plan to help each member acheive goals

• measure treatment outcome

limitations

• focus on behavioral change can detract client’s emotion

• counselors believe therapist work as teacher to deempasizes the importance relational factors in client therapist rlsp