SOCWORK 3E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Systematic Desensitization, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement
6 Mar 2017
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Major concepts: stemmed from the work of pavlov and skinner, both focused on the same major concept: conditioning, they think about conditioning in different ways. Joseph valpae: systematic de-sensitization, help clients learn relaxation techniques (ie. breathing, visualization, then present a hierarchy of environment scenes (present a scene that would create the least anxiety for a client, ex. Take something away from a child, ground the child should theoretically reduce the presence of an undesirable behaviour: a lot of clients that stop by use too much negative reinforcement and lack any positive reinforcement. Goals: goal is to remove the symptom or change the behaviour by shifting contingency and changing the reinforcement/punishment. Identify the problem: define the problem in behaviour terms, ask clients to be specific, for examples, ex. How do you act when you are feeling down/depressed: remember: get rid of the symptom get rid of the problem, look for contingencies (who, what, where, when, ex.
