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Review of Behavior Therapy

of self-monitoring used in the majority of studies evaluating the effectiveness of self monitoring. These are self-assessment and...

Behavioral Explanations of Darwin, Pavlov, Piaget, and Freud

as being a form of "wish fulfillment" (Gay, 1995, 151), contending that people dream of that which they are being deprived, i.e. m...

Cancer Interventions

care professionals and systems because of previous negative experiences. The literature emphasizes that all women, regardless of...

Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy as a Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

put into place active behavioral modification plans, and require the use of pharmacological support. Understanding treatment opti...

William Glasser's Cognitive-Behavioral Approach, A Case Study

out various psychological situations. No longer is such treatment considered taboo in a world where mental imbalance is quite pre...

Poor Communication Case Study

discuss with them the comprehensive components of his proposal. A group thrives or fails because of its members. For any g...

Counseling Sessions and Content Influencing

scenario: a 28-year old man arrives at his counseling session. The first session is the interview during which time, the man expla...

Criminal Behavior and Influential Factors

resources on deterring individuals from crime. Socioeconomically disadvantaged and lesser educated individuals seem to be...

'Juan' Case Study and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

why Juan seeks the physical affection of adults, even to the point of seeming younger than he is. At the same time, that kind of ...

Behaviorism Theory and Human Behavior

2005; PageWise, Inc., 2005). He studied and reported on observable behaviors, thus, providing empirical data proving that psycholo...

The Social Problem of Gang Violence

111). Social conditions become problematic through systems of communication (Charon). This interactionist perspective is based ...

Disruptive Behavior and Behavioral Interventions

reinforcer because a negative or unpleasant condition is avoided or stopped as a consequence of the behavior. A good example is ...

Serial Killers Kenneth Bianchi, Joseph Miller, and Ted Bundy

Bianchi was a serial killer but he did not work alone. Bianchi is one half of the duo called the Hillside Stranglers ("Angelo Buon...

Case Study Analysis of Depression Interventions

help people with their addictions, sometimes people with mental disorders need to be prompted to seek treatment because they are i...

Objective of Symbolic Interactionism

the next - and even one country from the next. While people may share various cultural traits, there are still both subtle and ex...

Behavioral Disorders in Students and the Value of Early Identification and Intervention

encouraged. Activities such as these lead to a number of behavioral problems and in some cases can lead to either voluntary or in...

Program to Stop Smoking

helps smokers to see nicotine as a drug and 43 percent of their program participants are smoke-free after a year (Hazelden Foundat...

The therapeutic alliance in relation to CBT

this criticism is linked to the CBT process and the application of CBT in changing problematic behaviors. CBT focuses on the fact...

Adult Learners, Motivation, and Curriculum Development

David Kolb (1984) developed what has been deemed a linear processing approach to learning. Kolb (1984) asserted that experiential...

Dominick in Wally Lamb's I Know This Much is True

In ten pages a behavioral character analysis of Dominick's personality as presented in Lamb's text is examines and also compared w...

Senior Citizens, Young People, and Suicide

to 14. Considering only adolescents 15 to 19, the suicide rate is "was 8.2 deaths per 100,000 teenagers, including five times as ...

Behaviorism and B.F. Skinner

The main point of Skinners theory was that learning was the result of a change in overt behavior, and those changes in behavior we...

Chapter Summaries on Police Deviance

thought, ultimately rendering "peace officers" the instigators of terrible crimes against humanity. The concept of a rational soc...

Behavior Disorders in Children

that if left unchecked, the latter can develop into the former. The extent to which children with problems tend to "slip through t...

Single Patient Designs v. Group Designs

which focused on group dynamics, and has shifted from this tailor made, or customized approach. One of the biggest reasons is that...

A 2003 Steptoe et al Article 'Behavioral Counseling to Increase Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables in Low Income Adults' Revieweed

that "brief individual counseling in primary care can elicit sustained increases in consumption of fruit and vegetables in low inc...

Williams Syndrome in Children, Problematic Behavior, and Pain Management

behaviours: one of the reasons for the study was to assess whether there were elements of the playschool environment which were tr...

Overview of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

integrates what has been defined as "behavior modification techniques," or interventions that are introduced to break the cycle be...

Psychotic Depression Application of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

emotional reaction to certain situations, and so listening becomes one of the fundamental tools in the learning of new skills (Sta...

CBT, an overview

integrates what has been defined as "behavior modification techniques," or interventions that are introduced to break the cycle be...