Tx of anxiety disorders
Giving someone a good "thing" (stimulus) as a reward to reinforce a behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
This group met in the 1800s to help each other stay sober.
What is the Washingtonian Movement?
In AA, believing in one's "powerlessness" over alcohol as part of the 12 steps is an example of this.
What is individual rehabilitation?
"Everything in the world is Blue, and you can't prove me wrong" is an example of this.
What is lack of falsifiability?
"People have reported benefits from bloodletting since the days of the Roman Empire!" is an example of this.
What is an argument from antiquity?
This is the basic name for the process in which a consequence, which follows a response, increases the likelihood that the response will be repeated in the same situation in the future.
What is reinforcement?
These "craftsmen" typically have little or no formal training in the treatment of alcohol use.
Who are addiction counselors?
The closest AA has to a treatment protocol is this.
What is the Big Book?
The homeopathic argument that water has memory, which is inconsistent with robust evidence from numerous lines of research in other disciplines, is an example of this.
What is an absence of connectivity with other research?
Making claims for my health product on morning TV shows but never subjecting it to scientific scrutiny is an example of this.
What is avoidance of peer review?
Taking a bad "thing" (stimulus) away as a reward to reinforce a behavior.
What is negative reinforcement?
In 20 years, the percent of craftsmen who held this view doubled.
What is the view of controlled drinking as a viable outcome in alcohol use treatment?
According to scientific research, this is most likely THE key factor responsible for AA's success.
What is a more adaptive social network?
The claim that a piece of jewelry's "circular form and spherical terminals offer low resistance to the bioelectrical conductibility of the alpha and beta waves, facilitating the discharge of excess positive ions or static electricity" is an example of this.
What is the use of psychobabble/hypertechnical language?
Behavioral therapy protocols for panic disorder used to teach patients to use relaxation techniques when they feel panicky. Careful research determined the relaxation techniques might be iatrogenic. Modern protocols adjusted and stopped including them, an example of this.
What is self-correction?
These therapies for panic disorder appear to be more effective and less subject to relapse than pharmacological methods
What are cognitive-behavioral therapies?
Traditionally, this group does not believe that one must have a history of alcohol use problems to treat alcohol use problems.
Who are "scientists"?
A behavioral intervention in which the pattern of substance use is modified through the use of reinforcement rules that provide external incentives for substance use change.
What is contingency management?
"My no touch knockout didn't work? Oh, it's because you raised your big toe!" is an example of these.
What are ad-hoc hypotheses?
If I claim that psychodynamic therapy is *highly effective* for treating panic disorder, but the only data I offer are from a single quasi-experimental study 20 participants, I am making this.
What is an extraordinary claim in the absence of extraordinary evidence?
This treatment for panic disorder may produce dependence, and most patients experience a relapse when the treatment is discontinued.
What are benzodiazepines?
Someone with this degree could prescribe medications to people with Alcohol Use Disorders.
What is an MD (DO/NP)?
The patient becomes the one suggesting and arguing for change in her own behavior in this form of treatment.
What is motivational interviewing?
If I claimed that cognitive therapy treated *all* mental health conditions without limits, my claim lacks this.
What are boundary conditions?
"I know 'no touch knockouts' are real because I've personally seen plenty of karate students get knocked out by their masters like that!" is an example of this.
What is an overreliance on anecdotes/testimonials?