Behavior Therapy
Name: Payvand Date: 10/28/2013
Name of theory: Behavior Therapy
Theoretical Paradigm: Cognitive-Behavioral
Prominent Theorist (s) B.F. Skinner, Joseph Wolpe, Arnold Lazarus, and Albert Bandura
Basic Assumptions of Human Nature:
Basic assumption is that behavior is a product of learning. That as individuals we are both the product and the producer of our environment. There are no set of unifying assumptions about behavior that can incorporate all the existing procedures in the behavioral field. Hence due to the diversity of views and strategies, is more accurate to think of behavioral therapies rather than a unified approach.
Population Served:
The approach has wide applicability to a range of clients design specific behavioral changes. If you problem areas for which behavior therapy appears to be effective are phobic disorders, social affairs, depression, anxiety disorders, sexual disorders, substance abuse, eating disorder, trauma, hypertension, children’s disorder, and many more.
Goals of Counseling
The hallmark of behavioral therapy is identification of specific goals of the outset of the therapeutic process. The general goals are to increase personal choice and to create new conditions are learning. And aim is to eliminate maladaptive behaviors and learn more effective behavioral patterns. Pacific achievement goals should be concrete, measurable, and objective term.
Techniques and Approaches
Behavioral treatment interventions are individually tailored to specific problem experienced by different clients. Any technique that can be demonstrated to change behavior may be incorporated in achievement plan. Techniques such as role-playing, behavioral arsenal, coaching, guided practice, and homework assignments can be included in the therapist repertoire.
Considerations (include strengths and weaknesses)
Some of the strengths of behavioral therapy is that it is a short-term approach that has wide applicability. It emphasizes research
Name of theory: Behavior Therapy
Theoretical Paradigm: Cognitive-Behavioral
Prominent Theorist (s) B.F. Skinner, Joseph Wolpe, Arnold Lazarus, and Albert Bandura
Basic Assumptions of Human Nature:
Basic assumption is that behavior is a product of learning. That as individuals we are both the product and the producer of our environment. There are no set of unifying assumptions about behavior that can incorporate all the existing procedures in the behavioral field. Hence due to the diversity of views and strategies, is more accurate to think of behavioral therapies rather than a unified approach.
Population Served:
The approach has wide applicability to a range of clients design specific behavioral changes. If you problem areas for which behavior therapy appears to be effective are phobic disorders, social affairs, depression, anxiety disorders, sexual disorders, substance abuse, eating disorder, trauma, hypertension, children’s disorder, and many more.
Goals of Counseling
The hallmark of behavioral therapy is identification of specific goals of the outset of the therapeutic process. The general goals are to increase personal choice and to create new conditions are learning. And aim is to eliminate maladaptive behaviors and learn more effective behavioral patterns. Pacific achievement goals should be concrete, measurable, and objective term.
Techniques and Approaches
Behavioral treatment interventions are individually tailored to specific problem experienced by different clients. Any technique that can be demonstrated to change behavior may be incorporated in achievement plan. Techniques such as role-playing, behavioral arsenal, coaching, guided practice, and homework assignments can be included in the therapist repertoire.
Considerations (include strengths and weaknesses)
Some of the strengths of behavioral therapy is that it is a short-term approach that has wide applicability. It emphasizes research