Behavioral Techniques
A reward system to keeping track of a child's actions and choices that you like and want the child to continue.
What is a behavior chart?
A goal setting question used in Solution-Focused Therapy. It is useful when a client does not know what a preferred future would look like. It can be used with individuals, couples, and families.
What is the Miracle Question?
A form of learning where individuals learn how to act or perform by observing another individual1. It is a theory that was initially developed by Albert Bandura in the 1960s. In psychology means purposely changing a behavior in order to improve your mindset and achieve your goals.
What is Modeling?
Assignments are introduced to practice skills taught in therapy, encourage patients to apply the skills they learned in therapy to real life situations, and to improve on specific problems encountered in treatment.
What is Homework?
A technique used in therapy to help create a different way of looking at a situation, person, or relationship by changing its meaning. The goal is to view a seemingly negative situation in such a way that it becomes positive. It requires seeing something in a new way, in a context that allows us to recognize and appreciate positive aspects of our situation.
What is reframing?
A theory of reinforcement that states that a more desirable activity can be used to reinforce a less desirable one.
What is the Premack Principle?
A counseling technique used to help a client recognize mistaken beliefs. The technique requires a counselor to point out certain unattractive behaviors of the client, which can make the client less likely to engage in that behavior because it is then seen as less desirable. The term was developed by the renowned therapist Alfred Adler4. Adler recognized that stirring up change can be difficult, and sometimes it is necessary to spoil the fun in order to alter negative patterns and create positive behavior change.
What is Spitting in the Soup?
Behavioral rehearsal is a therapy technique in which behaviors, responses, and social skills are practiced and imagined being in use in order to prepare for when they will be used in reality.
What is behavioral rehearsal?
A therapeutic approach that employs books and other literature to support a patient's mental health. It's also known as "reading therapy".
What is Biblotherapy?
A type of behavioral therapy that uses exposure therapy to treat anxiety and phobias. It involves gradually exposing a person to the source of their fear, while teaching them to use relaxation techniques to cope with the anxiety. The goal of this therapy is to remove the fear response and replace it with a relaxation response.
What is Systematic Desensitization?
The gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior decreasing or disappearing.
What is extinction?
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A talk therapy exercise commonly used in Gestalt therapy. It involves having a conversation with an chair as if it were occupied by someone else or another part of oneself. The purpose is to allow clients to express their thoughts and feelings as well as to integrate different aspects or "disowned parts" of their personality.
What is the Empty Chair?
A form of counseling that views people as separate from their problems and destructive behaviors. This allows clients to get some distance from the difficulty they face; this helps them to see how it might actually be helping or protecting them, more than it is hurting them.
What is Narrative Therapy?
A technique requiring the client to keep a record of one's own thoughts, feelings, insights, and more. It allows us to track our everyday life, identify our emotional triggers, and be more mindful of the positive.
What is Journaling?
A stress reduction technique that eliminates the overwhelming impact of stress or emotional cues that lead to unhealthy behavior3. The technique is based on the concept of aversive conditioning and involves taking mildly unpleasant actions to interrupt the thought and prevent it from taking hold.
What is thought stopping?
Behavioral technique that involves removing reinforcement for a certain behavior to decrease its frequency. It can be used to reduce undesirable or disruptive behaviors.
What is response cost?
A relaxation technique that involves imagining yourself being in a particular state. The technique involves visualizing positive, peaceful settings like a beautiful beach or a peaceful meadow; this should help stimulate the body’s natural relaxation response.
What is Visual/Guided Imagery?
A way of focusing on the positive attributes, rather than the negative ones, of a person or a group. It is used in various fields, such as leadership, counseling, community and social work, pediatrics, and more. It is a holistic and multidisciplinary practice that works with the individual to promote their wellbeing and achieve their desired outcomes.
What is a Strengths-based Approach?
This approach focuses on Self-awareness, Communication, Inspire others by giving – and receiving - positive recognition, we can learn about ourselves, build motivation.
What is Strength Bombardment?
A form of cognitive behavioral therapy that was designed specifically to teach those with PTSD effective coping skills to manage their symptoms. It often involves strategies like diaphragmatic breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and role-playing. While it may not be the best treatment option for all people with PTSD, it can be helpful for many.
What is Stress inoculation Training?
A technique, originating from behavior therapy, in which undesirable behavior is weakened and its occurrence decreased, typically by moving the individual away from the area that is reinforcing the behavior.
What is time out?
A style of communication that focuses on the feelings or beliefs of the speaker rather than thoughts and characteristics that the speaker attributes to the listener.
What are I-Messages?
An approach used to increase a client's sense of personal power, well-being, and access to needed resources.
What is client advocacy?
The process of describing another person’s behavior so that the person can see the consequences of the behavior and possibly change. It is also defined as a report or query determined to inspire the patient to render a conclusion.
What is Confrontation?
A technique or strategy that involves changing or replacing negative, inaccurate, or unhelpful thoughts and beliefs with more realistic, helpful, or socially acceptable ones. The goal is to reduce the emotional distress or the self-defeating behavior that results from distorted thinking patterns.
What is Cognitive Restructuring?