Intro To Counseling 174 Final

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Behavior therapy:

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practitioners focus on directly observable behavior, current determinants of behavior, learning experiences that promote change, tailoring treatment strategies to individual clients, and rigorous assessment and evaluation.

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Operant conditioning

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involves a type of learning in which behaviors are influenced mainly by the consequences that follow them. That is, if they provide some reward to the organism or eliminate versus stimuli–the chances are increased that the behavior will occur again.

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View of human nature

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modern behavior therapy is grounded on a scientific view of human behavior that accommodates a systematic and structured approach to counseling. This view does not rest on a deterministic assumption that humans are a mere product of their sociocultural conditioning. Rather, the current view is that the person is the producer and the product of his or her environment.

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Behavior therapy assumes that behavior is____?

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learned.

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anxiety reduction technique associated with behavior therapy

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.

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behavior therapy is an action oriented and an______, and learning is viewed as being at the core of therapy. Clients learn new and adaptive behaviors to replace old and maladaptive behaviors.

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Educational approach

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behavior therapist conduct a thorough functional assessment ( or behavior analysis) to identify the maintaining conditions by systematically gathering information about situational antecedents, the dimensions of the problem behavior, and the consequences of the problem. This is known as?

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The ABC model. The model of the behavior suggest that behaviors influenced by some particular events that precede it, called antecedents, and by certain events that follow it, called consequences.

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Examples of antecedent events

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antecedent events queue or elicit a certain behavior. For example, with a client who has trouble going to sleep, listening to relaxation tape may serve as a cue for sleep induction. Turning off the lights and removing the television from the bedroom may elicit sleep behaviors as well.

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Consequences are events that?

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Maintaining behavior in some way, either by increasing or decreasing it. For example, a client may be more likely to return to counseling after the counselor offers a verbal praise or encouragement for having come in or for having completed some homework.

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EMDR is used to help clients with what?

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I movement desensitization and reprocessing is a form of exposure therapy that entails assessment and preparation, imaginal flooding, and cognitive restructuring in the treatment of individuals with traumatic memories.

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EMDR involved the use of rapid,_____, and other bilateral stimulation to treat clients who have experienced Traumatic stress.

developed by Francine Schapiro.

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Rhythmic eye movements

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List the basic goals/aims of behavioral therapy

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the general goals of behavior therapy are to increase personal choice and to create new conditions for learning. The client, with the help of the therapist, defines specific treatment goals at the outset of the therapeutic process.

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Behaviorism is an empirical/scientific method not_______ based view of human nature and it assumes behaviors are learned.

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Philosophically

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systematic desensitization, which is based on the principle of_______ ________, is a basic behavioral procedure developed by Joseph Wolpe.

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classical conditioning

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systemic desensitization process

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clients imagine successively more anxiety–arousing situations at the same time that they engage in a behavior that competes with the anxiety. Gradually, or systematically, clients become less sensitive ( de-sensitized) to the anxiety–a rousing situation. This procedure can be considered a form of exposure therapy because clients are required to expose themselves to anxiety arousing images as a way to reduce anxiety.