What is behavior therapy?

What will be an ideal response?


Behavior therapy is a form of psychotherapy that is based on the principles of behaviorism. It is designed to help individuals understand how changing their behavior can lead to changes in how they are feeling. The ultimate goal of behavior therapy is usually to increase the client’s engagement in positive or socially reinforcing behavior and to decrease or eliminate unwanted or maladaptive behaviors.

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What is the behavioral therapy technique called observation?

a. The client constructs a scene and acts out a simple problematic situation. The counselor plays a character in the scene. b. The counselor goes to the client’s environment while the client experiences the difficulty that they are trying to solve. c. Examples of this are calorie counts, exercise logs, tallies of cigarettes, drinks, or social contacts. d. The client remembers a specific episode and tries to relive it, describing events and feelings. e. The client completes printed out (standardized) forms. These are constructed to discover more about problem behaviors.

Counseling

What would you expect from a person at a basic level of competence?

A) ?To be able to perform the skills in an interview B) ?To be able to use a skill with predictable results C) ?To be able to teach the skill to someone else D) ?None of these

Counseling

Making oneself known to another person by revealing personal information is known as __________

a. ego disclosure b. self-disclosure c. reverse empathy d. countertransference

Counseling

When Eric walks into a crowded room, he has an impression of the surroundings and the way people are relating to each other. According to Myers-Briggs type theory he is using: a. feeling

b. intuiting. c. thinking. d. sensing.

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