Psy 421 Advanced Behavior Modification

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Psy 421 Advanced Behavior Modification

• Alvin E. House, Ph.D.
• Summer 2005
• Fourth class

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Practice Variations

• Questions and Review
• Assignments
• Questions
• Practice of S.D.
• Find new partner
• Work at desensitizing 2 scenes from their
  hierarchy
• Switch roles
• Analysis

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Case Susan

• 21 year old, Caucasian female senior music major
  at university
• Middle of three sisters
• Presents with difficulty getting school work
  done

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Case Susan

• Severe obsessive-compulsive disorder of several
  years duration
• Multiple rituals
• Many fears, chronic anxiety
• Negative self-esteem, nonassertive

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Case Susan

• Seen for 21 sessions of behavior therapy
• Transferred afterwards to supervisor who say with
  fiancee for approximately one year
• Positive outcome graduated, married, moved,
  postcards for several years indicate relatively
  happy and successful

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Exposure

• Next assignments
• Carrying out in vivo exposure
• Self-monitoring
• Use of confederates
• Selecting a behavioral target for next week
• Positive
• Frequent
• Accessible (open to subjects control)
• Meaningful

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Applications of techniques of emotional regulation

• Conceptualization altering the stimulus
  characteristics (valence, evaluative quality,
  potency, power, conditioned elicitation) of
  stimuli
• Additional techniques
• Aversive conditioning
• Noxious stimuli
• Covert conditioning
• Stimulus satiation
• Altering the valence of sexual stimuli

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Questions?

• See you Tuesday
• Have a good holiday