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Behavior Therapy

Behavior Therapy. Warm-up. Please read the article Behavior therapy effective for children with Tourette syndrome and answer the following questions What is CBIT and what does it attempt to do? How can this method be effective?

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Behavior Therapy

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  1. Behavior Therapy

  2. Warm-up • Please read the article Behavior therapy effective for children with Tourette syndrome and answer the following questions • What is CBIT and what does it attempt to do? • How can this method be effective? • Do you believe that this therapy is more effective than drug treatment?

  3. Behavior Therapy • Focuses on helping someone gain more adaptive behavior • Based on the ideas of behaviorists, in which behaviors, good and bad, are learned • The ultimate goal is to teach people healthier behaviors to overcome their undesirable behaviors

  4. Counter Conditioning • The process of unlearning a behavior • Aversive Therapy: therapist replaces a positive response to a stimulus with a negative response

  5. Counter Conditioning cont’d • Systematic Desensitization: trains the client to relax in anxiety producing situations • Client learns how to relax • Client is exposed, with greater and greater intensity, to their phobia • The client becomes trained to react calmly • Modeling may also be used • Developed by Joseph Wolfe in the 1950s

  6. Operant Conditioning • Based on the idea that reinforced behaviors are repeated and un-reinforced behaviors are not • Therapists teach clients to behave a certain way in a given situation based on reinforced behaviors • Has been found to be effective with severe cases of mental illness • Often used as a reward system within mental health hospitals

  7. Operant Conditioning Cont’d • Successive Approximations: a series of reinforced behaviors that gradually get closer to the desired behavior • Often used in the teaching of social skills

  8. Evaluation of Behavior Therapy • It is a short-term therapy that can have long-lasting results • Has been found to be more effective than psychoanalysis and person-centered therapy • Most effective for well defined problems, such as phobias

  9. Group Activity • In small groups read through the article aversion therapy, decide as a group is you believe aversion therapy to be an ethical method of treatment • In your groups identify 5 facts, statistics, findings from the article that support your view point, explain how each fact does that

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