PSYC 4030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deconstruction, Operant Conditioning
12 Apr 2016
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Initial encounter: allowing the client to express their problem in their own words. Language deconstruction: i feel sad all the time . Must make goals more specific, unambiguous and measurable. Design an aspect of the problem that can be defined clearly and measured easily. Prioritizing behaviours, target the easiest ones first. Acceleration: increase of behavioural deficits (social activity eating) Creation of a void wqith reducing target behavioural. Never ask a client to do something a dead person can do. Establishing how exactly the target will be measurable. 4: behavioural assessment, clinical interview, may require simulation, manipulation of possibvle maintaining conditions, designing and. Specific, individualized details of how thr thetapy provedures will be implemented not all maintaining confitions need to be changed for yt5treament to be effectuvbe] Is problem alleviated> are treatment goals met: after treatment termintaiotn, periodic follow-up assessments are scheduled. Clients usually describe their problems in broad, vague terms. Clients often come to therapy with multiple problems.
