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Module 71
UNIT 8 Behavior, Cognitive, and Group Therapies
Term | Definition |
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Behavior Therapy | Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. |
Counterconditioning | Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning. |
Systematic Desensitization | A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. |
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy | A counterconditioning technique that treats anxiety through creative electronic simulations in which people can safely face their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking. |
Behavior Modification | The reinforcing of behaviors that therapists consider desirable; punish behaviors they consider undesirable. |
Token Economy | An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange tokens for privileges or treats. |
Cognitive Therapy | therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions. |
Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) | a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people’s illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions. |
Stress Inoculation Training | Teaching people to restructure their thinking in stressful situations. |
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) | a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior). |
Dialectical Behavior Therapy | Change harmful and suicidal behavior patterns. Attempts to make peace between two opposing forces(acceptance and change). |
Group Therapy | Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, providing benefits from group interaction. |
Family Therapy | Therapy that treats people in the context of their family system. Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members. |