PSYCH 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Joseph Wolpe, Classical Conditioning
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Structured guides for therapists and clients for a specific issue. Associating pairs of stimuli presented at the same time. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with a behavior or response opposite to the conditioned response. Pair relaxation with increasingly difficult anxiety-provoking stimuli. Relax muscles by tightening & releasing them, group by group. Make a list of clients fears from very mild to extreme. Do pmr, then maintain relaxation while confronting fears. Expose clients to feared stimuli and ask them to remain w/ the stimuli until anxiety stops. Imaginal (imagine it in your head) or. In vivo (carried out in real life) Directly change rewards and punishments for identified behaviors. Relationship b/w a behavior and its consequences. Punish (or don"t respond to) undesirable behaviors. Identify cognitive distortions, dispute them, and substitute irrational thoughts with evidence- based thoughts. Change your automatic interpretation of what caused a situation.
