General BFT
The styles in which to socialize and parent children.
What are: Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive, Neglectful?
This theorist is the first to use behaviorism in family issues. He founded BFT. His work began with parent training; for which his workbooks are still used and applied by parents and pediatric professionals.
What is Gerald Patterson?
To isolate an individual (Normally a child) from a reinforcing environment.
What is Time-out?
When therapists help clients in making appropriate responses by verbal instructions.
What is Coaching?
A father who constantly thinks “I’m failing as a parent” is taught to interrupt this thought with a firm internal “Stop,” then replace it with a healthier statement.
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what is Thought Stopping?
These are the 4 forms of BFT.
This theorist inspired the field of Behavioral family therapy based on his founding of the social learning theory.
What is Albert Bandura?
Withdrawing reinforcement to return behavior to its original level. For example: a parent ignores their child‘s temper tantrum
What is Extinction?
This is increasing a desired behavior by adding some reward for engaging in desired behavior.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
A couple tracks how many arguments they have each day before starting therapy so they can measure progress later.
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What is Charting
The 3-step process of functional family therapy.
What is Assess, change, and maintain?
This theorist was the founder of classical conditioning, which can be used as a technique within behavioral family therapy.
What is Ivan Pavlov?
This is a written agreement between individuals with a comparable condition for both parties.
What is Quid pro quo?
an intervention in which family members must first do less pleasant tasks before they are allowed to engage in pleasurable activities
What is the Premack principle?
A wife stops doing most household tasks because she feels her efforts are never acknowledged, creating imbalance in the relationship.
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What is Reciprocity
The phases involved in Parent Child Involvement Therapy (PCIT).
What are: Relationship enhancement and disciplinary phases?
This theorist who founded Operant conditioning, which plays a heavy role in the application and techniques of Behavioral family therapy.
A general technique in which a behavior is either ceased or reinforced through positive or negative reward or punishment.
What is Operant conditioning?
a technique known as successive approximation.
What is Shaping?
A therapist teaches an impulsive child to quietly say to himself, “Slow down… think first… then act,” helping him manage his reactions during family conflict.
What is Self-instructional training?
The acronym for a model of behavioral-focused sexuality counseling which starts with least intrusive support to most intensive.
What is: PLISSIT?
– P - Permission to discuss issues
– LI - Limited information
– SS - Specific Suggestions
– IT - Intensive Therapy
This theorist worked alongside Gerald Patterson in initial BFT work at the Oregon Learning center.
What is John B. Reid?
This is a written agreement between individuals with a conditional reward based on desired behavior. An example of this is a chore chart with an agreed upon reward for completion.
What is Contingency contract?
This technique includes reducing or elimination of anxiety by using relaxation training to counter the fear.
In family therapy, it can be used to help a family member overcome anxiety associated with expressing needs.
What is systemic desensitization?
A family breaks a stressful morning routine into small steps and practices coping with each part so the whole routine feels manageable.
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Stress inoculation