PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Rational Behavior Therapy, Systematic Desensitization
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Psychotherapy set of clinical techniques use to improve mental health. Behavior therapy (behavior modification therapy) changing somebody"s behavior. Classical conditioning creation of response to stimulus. Operant conditioning learning through positive and negative reinforcement. Cognitive therapy psychotherapy aimed at changing way of thinking: approaches: Based on notion that maladaptive behaviors are the result of skill deficits: based on assumption that most emotional and behavioral reactions are learned. Therefore, the goal of therapy is to help clients unlearn their unwanted reactions and to learn a new way of reacting: homework a central feature of cbt. A style of psychotherapy in which the therapist uses the principles of classical and operant conditioning to change a person"s behavior from maladaptive to adaptive. The assumption -- that maladaptive behaviors are learned and must be unlearned for therapy to be effective. Many anxiety disorders (e. g. phobia) are thought to have developed via classical conditioning.
