Interventions Based on the Classical Conditioning Model

Three Steps:1) establishing hierarchy of feared situation2) teaching relaxation3) pairing relaxation with feared situation/stimulus
start by having them in the same room as the feared object, take small steps, with each you are taught how to relax
- individual vividly imagines scenes from hierarchy while simultaneously relaxing- the process works through reciprocal inhibition, the idea that a person cannot be both nervous and relaxed at the same time

Same as systematic desensitization except it's right away
bring snake straight over instead of slowly through progressive steps

- used to change undesirable behaviors (sexual offenses, substance abuse) through negative means
> antabuse, makes you sick if you drink alcohol while taking it> food poisoning, you won't eat that food again> shock therapy
you associate that negative feeling with the stimulus

- reinforcement increases the likelihood that a certain behavior is repeated- punishment decreases the likelihood that a certain behavior is repeated
- positive: add stimulus to cause behavior to be repeated- negative: remove stimulus to cause behavior to be repeated

- reinforce successive approximations of the desired behavior
demonstration with chalkboard and hot & cold game

- problem solving- goal setting- self-monitoring- relaxation training > guided imagery > deep breathing- assertiveness training- time management

- remove undesired stimulus from your environment- stimulus narrowing: reduce frequency of desired behavior or put parameters around it- competing behaviors: do something that competes with unwanted behavior
chew gum at the end of a meal

- external events affect our feeling and behaviors- our interpretations of external events affect our feelings and behaviors
someone gives you a dirty look, but really they're just squinting because they're not wearing their contacts!

- everything can't be okay, its over you can't go back in time and change it, stop beating yourself up about it- perfectionism = the belief that you have to do the best and have the best, acceptance is key- catastrophising: thinking everything will be a catastrophe, but there's no evidence of it- self-depreciating: thinking you're not worthy, low self-esteem

- whatever thought is repeating in your mind, you scream stop, it interrupts the pattern- only in appropriate place/time- when you interrupt it, you have time to come up with a coping strategy

A) activating eventB) belief: evaluation of eventC) consequences (behavioral and emotional, stem from B)D) dispute through self-monitoring (detecting), challenging (debating) and discriminatingE) effectF) new feeling
overate during lunch, blew my diet, ate double my normal intake, feel disappointed
creates a behavior chain