2. What is behavior therapy? Psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior
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4. Therapeutic goals Establish goals at outset of treatment (concrete, specific, measurable) Goals increase personal choice and to create new conditions to learning Aim is to eliminate maladaptive behaviors and learn effective behavior patterns Client-therapist collaboration in treatment goals
5. Techniques & procedures Assertiveness training Allows the individual to express their feelings, opinions and needs in a respectful and effective Systematic desensitization With the appropriate relaxation skills, the individual will learn how to react and overcome situations in a hierarchy of fears –can use virtual reality Relaxation methods Helps the individual new and productive ways of dealing with stress
6. Techniques & procedure Flooding Allows the individual to express their feelings, opinions and needs in a respectful and effective Multimodal therapy Basic ID modalities are used in order to present specific interventions for each problem experienced In vivo desensitization Similar to systematic desensitization, but the individual practices the technique in “real life”
8. Contributions Short-tem approach Emphasizes research into and assessment of techniques Accountability Problems are identifies and attacked Clients are informed about the therapeutic process Therapist is reinforcer, consultant, model, teacher, and expert in behavioral change Integrated with diverse clientele
9. Limitations (In)Ability to control environment such as institutional settings Imposition of conforming behaviors Client manipulation Not address broader human problems (meaning and purpose) Specific and narrow
