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Psychology
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11/12/2011

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What theory is the Behavioral approach based on?
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Social Learning Theory
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Theory of Social Change
Definition
People strive to maximize interpersonal rewards and minimize costs
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Who founded Theory of Social Change?
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- Thibaut
- Kelley
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What are the general goals of behavioral family therapy?
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- Increase rewarding exchanges
- Decrease aversive exchanges
- Teach communication and problem solving
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Contemporary approaches to CBT have expanded to include:
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Examination and RESTRUCTURING of thoughts and perceptions
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CBT teaches fams:
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- Specific techniques for target behaviors
- General behavior management
- Methods for reevaluating automatic thoughts
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Why is is important to reevaluate automatic thoughts?
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To identify distortions and address misconceptions
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What accounts for the strengths and weaknesses of this approach?
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Behaviorist's focus on modifying the consequences of problem behavior
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Weaknesses of behaviorism:
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-Treatment may succeed with symptom (behavior) but not with family.
- Attitudes and feelings may not change with behavior- important to treat cognitive and affective issues also
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Benefits of behaviorism?
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With the specific focus on behavior change, very effective techniques have been developed
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Who do behaviorists usually treat?
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- Rarely treat whole fams
- Usually use only subsystems important to behavior change
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How can CBT's weaknesses be improved?
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- By broadinging focus and scope of treatment to include families as systems
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What is considered the greatest strength of CBT?
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- Observes what happens and then measures change
- Developed a wealth of assessment methods
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Another advance of CBT is the movement from eliminating or reinforcing "marker" behaviors to...
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teaching problem solving, cognitive, and communication skills.
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Behavior therapy is a decendant of...
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Ivan Pavlov's classical conditioning

(Also used by John B. Watson "little Albert" and Mary Cover Jones "Peter" )
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Sytematic Desensitization
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- Joseph Wolpe
- Great success in treating phobias by reducing anxiety through reciprocal inhibition
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Reciprocal Inhibition
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- Part of Joseph Wolpe's Systematic Desensitization
-Reducing anxiety by Pairing responses incompatible with anxiety with previously anxiety arousing stimuli.
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In vivo desensitization
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Reducing anxiety by actually approaching the feared object or situation
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When was Classical Condtioning primarily applied to family problems?
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- To treat ANXIETY disoders (inc. agorophobia and sexual dysfunction)

-Also helped with enuresis- bedwetting
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The "greatest influence on Behavioral family therapy came from..."
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-B.F. Skinner's
-Operant Conditioning
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Operant

(As in Operant conditioning)
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Voluntary responses as opposed to involuntary refexes
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What determines the frequency of operant responses?
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- consequences

- Positively reinforced responses will be repeated frequently
- Punished or ignored responses will be extinguished
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Functional Analysis of Behavior
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-In Operant Behavior Therapy
- A study of a particular behavior, what elicits it,and what reinforces it
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What type of reinforced behavior is the hardest to extinguish?
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- Intermittently reinforced
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Three leaders played a role in the development of behavioral family therapy:
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- Gerald Patterson (psychologist)
- Robert Liberman (psychiatrist)
- Richard Stuart (social worker)
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Gerald Patterson
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- Most influenc. in devel. behavioral parent training- social learning theory
- Strategies for eliminating undesirable behavior and substituting desireable behavior.
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Gerald Patterson developed behavioral parent training, and trained parents in social learning theory, who else was prominent in the field?
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-Anthony Graziano
-Rex Forehand
-Daniel and Susan O'leary
-Roger McAuley
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Robert Liberman
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- Second major figure in development of Behavioral Family Therapy
- Psychiatrist
- Outline Operant learning framework for depression, headaches, social inadequacy, and marital discord
-Introduced "role rehearsal" and "modeling" to family therapy
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Who introduced "role rehearsal" and "modeling" to family theory?
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Robert Liberman
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Richard Stuart
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-Third major influence on behavioral family therapy
-Contingency Contracting
-Stuart Focused on how the exchange of positive behavior could be maximized using Reinforcement Reciprocity
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Reinforcement Reciprocity
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Exchanging rewarding behaviors between family members.
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Contingency Contracting
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Agreements made between family members to exchange rewards for desired behavior. (Richard Stuart)
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What 3 major packages of Behavioral Family Therapy evolved in the 1970s?
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- Parent training
- Behavioral Couples Therapy
- Sex therapy
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Who are the present leading figures in behavioral couples therapy?
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-Robert Weiss
-Richard Stuart
-Michael Crowe
-Ian Falloon
-Gayola Margolin
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CBT refers to the approaches inspired by:
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- Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck
- That emphasize attitude changes improtance in behavior modification
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Who are the leaders in CBT?
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-Donald Baucom
-Norman Epstein
-Frank Dattilio
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Extinction
Definition
Eliminating behavior by ignoring it.
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What theory argues that people strive to maximize rewards and minimize costs in relationships?
Definition
Theory of Social Exchange

(Thibaut and Kelley)
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What do behaviorists consider to be the most important feature of good relationships?
Definition
Communication skills
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How do behaviorists view symptoms?
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As learned responses
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Aversive Control
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Using punishment and criticism to eliminate undesirable responses
(nagging, crying, withdrawing)
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What are Datillio 8 types of cognitive distortion?
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1- Arbitrary inference
2- Selective Abstraction
3-Overgeneralization
4- Exaggeration and minimization
5- Personalization
6- Dichotomous thinking
7- Labeling
8- Mind reading
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Arbitrary Inference
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Conclusions are drawn from events in the absense of supporting evidence

i.e. man whose wife is always late concludes she doesn't care about his feelings
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Selective Abstraction
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Certain details are highlighted while others are ignored

i.e. parents remembering when a child defies them but not when they do something right
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Overgeneralization
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Isolated incidents taken as general patterns
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Labeling
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Behavior is attributed to undesirable personality traits
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What is the goal of CBT?
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To modify specific behavior to alleviate the presenting problem
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What are the "hallmarks" of behavioral family therapy?
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1- Careful assessment to determine frequency of prob. behavior, to guide therapy, to provide feedback

2- Strategies designed to modify the contingencies of reinforcement in each unique fam.
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Most Behavioral Fam. therapy uses Operant conditioning and dyadic focus
Definition
Term
Functional family therapy
(Barton & Alexander)
Definition
- Argues that members of unhappy fams. attribute their probs. to neg. traits (i.e. laziness) in other members
- Leaves fams. disempowered
Term
MOst CBT assessments are based on what model of behavior?
Definition
SORKC
(Kanfer and Phillips)
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What does SORKC stand for?
Definition
S- Stimulous
O- State of organism
R- Response
KC- Nature and contingency of consequences
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Premack principle
Definition
- Applied to accelerate behavior
- Pleasant high-probability behavior is chosen to reinforce low probability behavior

-I.e. if you do your h.w. you can watch t.v.
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What's most common technique for decelerating behavior?
Definition
Time-out
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Stuart's 5 strategies that summarize the behavioral approach to troubled marriages
Definition
1- Cpls. taught to express needs clearly in behavioral terms
2- New behavior exchange procedures (positive control instead of aversive control)
3- Improve communication
4- Cpls. share power and decisions
5- Strategies for future prob. solving
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Cognitive mediation model (Beck)
Definition
-Emotions and actions are mediated by cognitions
- Uncovering negative assumptions that keep ppl. stuck
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Rational-emotive therapy (Ellis)
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- Illogical beliefs= emot. distress
- A-B-C Theory
- Try to release false beliefs
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CBT
Definition
-Balanced emph. b/w cog. and behav.
- Increased focus on greater depth of patterns of fam. interaction
- Emphasizes attitude and behavior change
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Epstein and Schlesinger- 4 means by which family members cognitions, behaviors,and emotions may interact and become volatile
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1- Indivs. own cogs. toward fam.
2- Actions of fam. toward him or her
3- Combined reactions several fam. members have toward her
4- Charcs. of relationships b/w other fam. members (i.e. they usually support eachothers oppinions)
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More family members= more momentum for volatile escalation
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Term
Cognitive therapy (Aaron Beck)
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-Emph. Schemas (core beliefs)
-Fam. members helps interpret and evaluate one anothers false beliefs
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What are Frank Dattilio's 2 sets of schemas about fam. life?
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1- a schema related to parents experiences growing up in their own fams
2- schemas abt. fams. in general
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Wolpe's Systematic desensitization led to major advances in the treatment of sexual dysfunction
Definition
- He believed most sex. probs. result from conditioned anxiety
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Who were the leaders in advances abt. sex. dysfunction?
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- Wolpe
-Masters and Johnson
-Weekes and Gambescia
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Helen Singer Kaplan's 3 problems w/ sex. dys.
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1- Disorders of desire
2- Arousal disorders
3- Orgasm disorders
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Sensate focus
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- Time to relax and enjoy touching and being touched
-Sex. dys. technique
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2 trends emerge from behavioral body of evidence
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- Behavioral parent training (esp. Gerald Patterson)and behavioral cpls. therapy (Neil Jacobson) effective

- Understanding need for expansion i.e. inc. cognition
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2 general categories of intervention for CBT behavior change?
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1- Subs. positive control for aversive
2- Skills training
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Neil Jacobsen and Andrew Christiansen
Definition
- Modified Behavioral cpls. therapy
- Added stretegies to to bring about emotional acceptance in clients
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What are the 3 areas of research in fam. integration ready to advance?
Definition
- conduct disorders in kids
- marital conflict
- schizophrenic adults
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