Anxiety Much?
An anxiety-inhibiting response cannot occur at the time as the anxiety response.
Anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxation producing response so that eventually an anxiety-producing stimulus produces a relaxation response
What is Systematic Desensitization?
Behavior training program that teaches a person how to control certainties to control certain functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, and muscular tension
What is Biofeedback?
Deterioration of existing defenses
What is decompensation?
Potentially maladaptive feelings or behaviors are diverted into socially acceptable, adaptive channels.
What is Sublimation?
A talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave.
What is Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
CBT is most commonly used to treat
What are Anxiety and depression?
Any treatment aimed at reducing the attractiveness of a stimulus or behavior by repeated paring of it with an aversive stimulus
What is Aversion Therapy?
A client receives tokens as reinforcement for performing specified behaviors. The tokens function as currency within the environment and can be exchanged for desired goods, services, or privileges.
What is a Token Economy?
A person avoids uncomfortable emotions by focusing on facts and logic. Jargon is often used as a device of intellectualization. By using complex terminology the focus is placed on the words rather than emotions.
What is intellectualization?
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even perceive painful realities.
Denial
Helps people become and embrace being an expert in their lives. Separates a person from their problem.
What is Narrative Therapy?
Narrative therapy can help with
What are Anxiety, attachment issues, ADHD, depression, eating disorders, grief, and PTSD?
Paring a movement through a hierarchy of anxiety from least to most anxiety-provoking situations
What is In Vivo Desensitization?
A behavioral technique that uses method and instruction that involved an individual (the model) demonstrating the behavior to be acquired by a client.
what is modeling?
Internalizing the beliefs of the other people.
What is Introjection?
Associated with a borderline personality disorder. A person perceives self and others as "all good" or "all bad"
What is Splitting?
A narrative therapy technique that helps people gain clarity in their stories. The therapist helps the client break down their story into smaller parts, clarifying the problem and making it more approachable.
What is Deconstruction?
Clients' anxiety is extinguished by prolonged real or imagined exposure to high-intensity fear stimuli.
What is Flooding/exposure therapy?
A behavioral strategy where learning results from the reinforcement of successive steps to a final desired behavior.
What is Shaping?
Avoiding the experience of an emotion associated with a person, idea, or situation.
What is Isolation of affect?
A reversion to immature patterns of behavior.
What is Regression.
A narrative therapy technique where the therapist works to help people not only challenge their problems but widen their views by considering alternative stories.
What are Unique Outcomes?
A behavioral technique in which there is a removal of something desirable. A negative punishment technique.
What is a time-out?
Mental representation stands for some other thing/s or attribute. Usually unconscious.
What is Symbolization (defense mechanism)?
Something that holds you back or restrains you from doing or thinking something thing.
What is inhibition?
Name the behavioral technique in which you withhold a reinforcer that normally follows a behavior.
What is Extinction? (An operant conditioning technique)
A person adopts affects, ideas, attitudes, or behaviors that are opposites of those he or she harbors consciously or unconsciously (i.e., excessive moral zeal masking strong, but repressed asocial impulses or being excessively sweet to mask unconscious anger).
What is reaction formation?
Name the behavioral theory which uses Punishment (Decreases the likelihood that the behavior will occur ) vs reinforcement (Increases the likelihood that the behavior will occur)
What is Operant Conditioning Theory?
The following terms are used in which behavioral technique? Neutral stimulus, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response
What is classical conditioning?