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Overview
Behavior therapy is always undergoing refinement and uses learning to overcome specific behavioral problems. In this type of therapy it is believed that behaviors are learned, that we are a product of our environment. Focus will be on present and overt behavior. In this type of therapy it is believed that reinforcement and imitation teaches normal behavior and that abnormal behavior is a direct result of defective learning. Therapy will be based on learning theory. The therapy will include a treatment plan, the goals of the treatment will be laid out up front, and the outcome expected from the therapy will be set right up front too (Rubenstein 2003). ... Both client and therapist need to take an active role in learning the more desired behavior. Behavior therapy is well suited to deal with depression, disorders in childrens behavior, phobias, sexual disorders of any type, and stuttering.
Behavior therapy does not have a really prominent name or person associated with it. ... It appears that the learning theory was seen as the foundation for behavior therapy, but nobody ever seemed to agree whose theory was at the root or the core. Over the years, behavioral therapy has been compared with other systems of psychotherapy quite frequently. Many different therapists have formed characteristics between behavior therapy and other types of therapy (Rubenstein 2003).
There are basically three major thrusts within behavior therapy. To many these are known as the three C’s of behavior therapy. They are as follows: counterconditioning, contingency management, and cognitive behavior modification. ...
CounterConditioning
Counterconditioning is a type of therapy based on the principles of classical conditioning that attempts to replace bad or unpleasant emotional responses to a stimulus with more pleasant, adaptive responses. ...
After the war he worked at the University of Witwatersrand and began to devise systematic desensitization as a form of behavior therapy.
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