Behaviour therapy is a broad family of psychotherapies that applies learning principles to understand and change specific behaviours. This lesson introduces its scope, origins, and relationship to cognitive-behavioural therapy.
Behaviour therapy, also called behavioural psychotherapy, uses techniques derived from behaviourism and, in some forms, cognitive psychology. It focuses on specific learned behaviours and the ways that environmental conditions and other people’s mental states influence those behaviours. Rather than treating a disorder as a fixed thing a person possesses, this approach examines how learning has shaped responses in particular situations.
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What is behaviour therapy?
A broad family of psychotherapies that applies learning principles to understand and change specific behaviours in their environmental and interpersonal contexts.
What is respondent conditioning?
Learning in which a stimulus becomes associated with another stimulus that produces a reflexive response, so the previously neutral stimulus can eventually elicit that response.
What is operant conditioning?
Learning in which consequences, such as reinforcement or punishment, affect how likely a behaviour is to occur again.
What did precision teaching contribute?
It offered a structured way to monitor individual learning and treatment progress, notably through the standard celeration chart.
How does CBT combine approaches?
It integrates cognitive methods, such as cognitive restructuring, with behavioural methods based on learning principles.
Quiz questions
Which four elements are examined in a functional assessment?Answer: Stimulus, organism, response, and consequence.
In behavioural assessment, what is a baseline?Answer: A record of behaviour before treatment begins.
What does exposure and response prevention involve?Answer: Encountering anxiety-provoking cues while refraining from responses that maintain the problem.
Which set of domains is included in the BASIC ID framework?Answer: Behaviour, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relations, and drug use.
What is a commonly described feature of third-generation behavioural therapies?Answer: They extend behavioural principles through contextual analysis and, in some approaches, renewed emphasis on radical behaviourism.
Based on the Wikipedia article Behaviour therapy, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.