Mary Cover Jones
What is Mary known for?
She came up with behavior therapies
Define exposure therapy
Behavioral techniques, such as sympathetic desensitization and virtual exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people to them.
What is family therapy?
Therapy that treats people in the context of their family system
What is aversive conditioning?
A type of counterconditioning that associates a unpleasant state with a unwanted behavior.
Would someone that is afraid of heights want to go to exposure therapy Yes? No? Why?
Yes! because gradual exposure to heights have the possibility to make that person overcome their fear
Pros for exposure therapy
Very effective and has quick results.
Pros for Family therapy
Helps members identify their roles within the family social system
Improves communication
discovers new way of preventing/ resolving conflict
Cons for exposure therapy
Very difficult to administer to to follow through
Cons for Family therapy
Might be hard to admit when you are wrong
What is Mary's Nickname
Mother of behavior therapy
What are the two types of exposure therapy and explain what they do
Systematic desensitization- A type of therapy exposure that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradualy increasing anxiety- triggering stimuli
Virtually reality exposure- Treats anxiety through creative electric stimulations in which people can face their greatest fear
What does family therapy help identify?
The social roles in their family
What is a example of aversive conditioning?
For helping with nail biting, you put nasty tasting nail polish on
For helping with alcohol addiction, taking a pill when you know you want to drink so you feel like you have a stomach bug and don't drink