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Why is learning theory important in treating your patients?
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Learning theory is thought to be the basis of many pathological behaviors/disorders.
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How does stimulus control modify behavior?
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SC changes the environment in which the unwanted behavior occurs.
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In __ therapy the patient decreases the behavior as a means of avoiding the aversive stimulus.
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Aversion therapy.
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__ is a self-regulation approach that uses instruments to modulate physiological processes.
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Biofeedback.
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How does biofeedback work?
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It measures and translates a physiological response into something the patient can understand and attempt to control.
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What does contingency management do?
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Techniques used to increase wanted behaviors and decrease unwanted ones.
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In CBT, __ enhances the patient’s role as active partner in treatment.
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Self-monitoring.
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How can patients learn to monitor their own behavior so that they can change it?
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Self-monitoring.
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How does systematic desensitization work?
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Construct a hierarchy of feared behaviors and attempt those behaviors, starting with the easiest one. Sometimes start with imagined activity and then build up to reality.
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What is the core principle of systematic desensitization?
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Reciprocal inhibition - you cannot be anxious if you are relaxed.
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In exposure techniques, how are rumination and rituals blocked?
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Response prevention - do not allow patient to engage in anxiety reducing behaviors after exposure to stressor.
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What is the basis of cognitive therapy? With cognitive d/o, __ become inappropriately activated and distorted.
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Clinical d/o develop because people process information regarding stressful events in a biased and inflexible way. Schema become inappropriately activated and distorted.
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