1. Behavior Therapies: Learning One’s Way to Better Behavior

2. Learning One’s Way to Better Behavior
Behavior therapies: Action therapies focused on behavior not causes
Classical and operant conditioning
Behavior modification or applied behavior analysis:
Change behaviors via learning techniques
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3. Behavior Therapy Treatment
Emphasizes changing learned behavior rather than understanding feelings.
Behavior therapy generally attempts to alter the behavior of the client through specific techniques that are administered during a brief period of time.

4. Classical conditioning techniques
Behavior Therapies
Classical conditioning techniques

5. Classical conditioning techniques
Behavior Therapies
Classical conditioning techniques

6. Classical conditioning applications
Behavior Therapies
Classical conditioning applications
Bedwetting
Claustrophobia
Counterconditioning: pairing the trigger stimulus with a new response that is incompatible with the fear
“Boggart in the Wardrobe” clip

7. Classical conditioning applications
Behavior Therapies
Classical conditioning applications
Bedwetting
Claustrophobia
Counterconditioning: pairing the trigger stimulus with a new response that is incompatible with the fear
Exposure Therapy: Buckbeak the Hippogriff

8. Therapies Based on Classical Conditioning
Exposure therapy of Systematic desensitization: For treating phobias
Step 1: Relaxation training
Step 2: Fear hierarchy
Step 3: Progressive
exposure
Eye-movement desensitization reprocessing, or EMDR, is a type of exposure therapy used in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
It involves imaginal flooding, cognitive reprocessing and desensitization of the fearful event, and rapid eye movements or other bilateral stimulation.
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9. Therapies Based on Classical Conditioning
Exposure therapy: Introduces clients to situations related to their anxieties under controlled conditions
Goal: Reduce response to cues or triggers of whatever is causing the patient a problem
Flooding: Rapid, intense exposure
Eye-movement desensitization reprocessing, or EMDR, is a type of exposure therapy used in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
It involves imaginal flooding, cognitive reprocessing and desensitization of the fearful event, and rapid eye movements or other bilateral stimulation.
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10. Professor Gallagher and his controversial technique of simultaneously confronting the fear of heights, snakes, and the dark.

11. Classical conditioning applications
Behavior Therapies
Classical conditioning applications
Aversive Conditioning

12. Therapies Based on Classical Conditioning
Aversion therapy:
Undesirable behavior paired with aversive stimulus
Eye-movement desensitization reprocessing, or EMDR, is a type of exposure therapy used in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
It involves imaginal flooding, cognitive reprocessing and desensitization of the fearful event, and rapid eye movements or other bilateral stimulation.
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13. Operant conditioning techniques
Behavior Therapies
Operant conditioning techniques
A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforce or diminished if followed by a punisher.

14. Therapies Based on Operant Conditioning
Reinforcement: Strengthening of response by following it with a pleasurable consequence (positive) or the removal of an unpleasant stimulus (negative)
Token economy: Reinforcers earned and exchanged for desired things
Contingency contract: Formal agreement on behavior change, reinforcements, penalties
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15. Therapies Based on Operant Conditioning
Modeling: Learning via observation and imitation
Participant modeling: Model takes client through step-by-step process for desired behavior
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16. Therapies Based on Operant Conditioning
Extinction: Remove reinforcer, reduce undesirable behavior
Time Out: Removal from situation that reinforces undesirable behavior
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17. Assignment Pages 445 – 446 in your book
Create a Case Study
With a partner, identify a condition that you as a therapist would treat with behavior therapy.
Describe the patient and their presenting problem. (Tell their story). Why are they seeking treatment?
Describe the specific behavioral treatment you design to address the patient’s problem. Go into detail about what the treatment would be like.
Describe the outcome.