This document discusses various therapeutic techniques and procedures used in behavioral therapy. It outlines techniques such as applied behavioral analysis, relaxation training, systematic desensitization, exposure therapy, and operant conditioning. Operant conditioning techniques use positive reinforcement by adding desirable stimuli, negative reinforcement by removing unpleasant stimuli, extinction by withholding reinforcement, and punishment to decrease behaviors. Relaxation training involves instruction over several hours, while systematic desensitization developed by Joseph Wolpe is an effective treatment for anxiety that involves relaxation training, developing an anxiety hierarchy, and systematic exposure.

1. “Application:
Therapeutic Techniques
and Procedures”
Submitted to:
Prof. Agnes Montalbo
Rizal Technological University
Submitted by:
Cherryvie T. Camarines

2. * According to Arnold Lazarus
(2008), behavioral practitioners
can corporate into their treatment
plans any techniques that can be
demonstrated to effectively
change behavior.

3. Behavioral Techniques:
*Applied behavioral analysis
*Relaxation training
*Systematic desensitization
*Exposure therapy
*Eye movement desensitization
*Reprocessing

4. Reprocessing behavioral techniques:
*social skills training
*self modification program and self
directed behavior
*multimodal therapy
*mindfulness and acceptance based-
approaches

5. Applied Behavioral
Analysis:
“Operant Conditioning
Techniques”

6. Operant conditioning techniques
and methods of assessment and
evaluation are applied to a wide
range of problems in many different
setting (Kazdin, 2001).

7. Behaviorist believes we
respond in predictable
ways because of the
gain experience
(positive
reinforcement) or
because of the need to
escape or avoid
unpleasant
consequences (negative
reinforcement).

8. Positive
reinforcement
involves the addition
of something of value
to the individual
(such as praise,
attention, money, or
food) as a
consequences of
certain behavior.

10. Negative
reinforcement
involves the escape
from or the
avoidance of
aversive
(unpleasant)
stimuli.

12. Extinction refers
to withholding
reinforcement
from a
previously
reinforced
respond.

13. Punishment refer
to as aversive
control in which
the consequences
of a certain
behavior result in
a decrease of that
behavior.

14. Miltenberger (2008),
describes two kinds
of punishments that
may occur as a
consequences of
behavior.
*Positive punishment
*Negative
punishment

15. Positive punishment- an aversive
stimulus is added after the
behavior to decrease the
frequency of the behavior.
Negative punishment- a
reinforcing stimulus is removed
following the behavior to
decrease the frequency of the
target behavior.

16. Skinner (1948), the key
principle in the applied
behavior analysis
approach is to use the
least aversive means
possible to change
behavior and positive
reinforcement is
known to be the most
powerful change agent.

17. Relaxation Training and
Related Methods

18. Relaxation
training
involves several
component that
typically require
4 to 8 hours of
instruction.

19. Systematic
Desensitization

20. Systematic desensitization
-developed by Joseph Wolpe
-empirically researched behavior
therapy procedure that is time
consuming yet it is clearly an
affective and efficient treatment of
anxiety-related disorders, particularly
in the area of specific phobias.

21. Steps in Systematic
Desensitization,
McNeil and Kyle
(2009)
1.Relaxation training
2.Development of the
anxiety hierarchy
3.Systematic
desensitization
proper.

22. Thank You and God bless!!!