Bs17-Learning Theory Application

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Why is learning theory importatnt in treating your patients?

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Thought ot be the basis of many pathological behaviors/disorders (Eg addition, sleep disorders, anxiety

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What is stimulus control?

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The focus on changing the envir which the unwanted behavior thrives.

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What is aversion therapy?

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Pair an aversion stim w; the problem behavior-> dec the behavior as a means of avoiding the averse stim (disulfram in alcoholics)

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Biofeedback & self-regulation

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Family of self-reg approaches (eg relaxation, hypnosis, mediation). Use of instruments to help patients voluntarily modulate physiological processes (muscle contraction, CO, vasodilation)/ Transduce to more understandable signal (tone, meter, music)

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How is bifedback utilized?

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To treat a spectrum of health conditions (asthma/COPD, TMJ,myofasical pain, seizures, incontinence, irritable bowel, headaches)

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What is contingency management? Examples

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Tech used to inc wanted behavior & dec disruptive ones. Eg token economies & Contingency contracts

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Charac of token economies?

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Targeted behaviors are reinforced w/ a token to be exchanged for any of a menu of rewards or privileges

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Charac of contingency contracts?

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Can be used to specify benenfits & responsibilities assoc w/ treatment (poor medical adherence & borderline personality disorder)

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Cognitive behavioral approaches

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Diverse w/ initial roots in learning, Multi-modal treatment, Patient as active collaborator, home training

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Cognitive behavior tech

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Self monitoring, relaxation training, systematic desensitization, cognitive coping skills, relapse prevention, & family involvement

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Self monitoring

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Enhance role as active partner,discover Sx are mutable not fixed, turn from helpless victum to disspassionate observer, patient learns to monitor their own behaviors so can begin to change

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Relaxation training

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Lower anxiety, lower autonomic arousal, enhance sense of control, & patients are taught to relax in a variety of situations

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Systematic desensitization

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"Construct hierarchy of feared situations. Via reciprocal inhibition– presumed mechanism of action, which capitalizes on incompatible responses. Learn relaxation skills. Useful in phobias, chemo induced nausea

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2 types of systematic desensitization?

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Imaginal desensitization: beginning w/ easiest item on hierarchy, practice relaxation response while imaging feared situation. In vivo desensitization: after mastering each scene in imagination, practice in real life settings

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Exposure tech

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"Treatment that employs exposure & blocking techniques (eg Flooding & Systematic desensitization). Performed in vivo or in imagination. Blocking interrupts ruminations or rituals through response prevention, distraction, or thought stopping.

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Treatment of choice for OCD, panic disorder with/without agoraphobia, PTSD?

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Exposure

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Cognitive therapies

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"Responses are driven not by the situation, but by our personal perceptions of the situation. We do not respond passively to environmental forces, we actively process incoming information.

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Types of cognitive therapies

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Beck- Cognitive therapy. Ellis- Rational Emotive Therapy (RET). Meichenbaum- Self-instructional Training

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Beck's cognitive therapy

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"Clinical disorders develop when information processing is biased & inflexible. Particular cognitive representations (“schemas”) become inappropriately activated and distorted. (eg Anxiety disorders (threat). Depressive disorders (Failure))