behavioral therapies and treatment of disorders

1. Treatment of
Psychological Disorders
by Behavioral Therapy

2. Psychological
Disorders

3. •There are many behavioral
methods that are very effective in
treatment.
•These therapies are able to
provide positive change in their
client.

4. •When several methods are likely
to be equally effective, therapists
give their client a choice such as,
to use graduated or intense
exposure.

5. Depression

6. • Behavioral interventions for positive
change.
• Rating Scale are used to assess feelings of
guilt, sadness, and failure and change in
appetite, sleeping, health, sex and other
behaviors.
• Set and plan realistic goals with their
patients.

7. • Increase daily activities.
• Social skills training such as modeling
appropriate behavior, role playing,
and behavioral rehearsal.
• Increase pleasant social interactions

8. Case
• A 29 year old divorced mother with
children aged 5 and 7.
• Crying spells and frequent absences from
work.
• Worried about her older child’s school
performance and was upset about her ex-
husband’s failure to provide child support.

9. Obsessive-
Compulsive Disorder

10. • Exposure and response prevention (E/RP)
is effective technique.
• E/RP consists of exposure for an hour or
two at a time to situations that provoke
discomfort.
• Situations that produce distress are graded
from moderate to severe.

11. • Detailed information about the symptoms.
• Often rating schedules, daily logs, and
brief assessment instruments are also
used.
• Home visits, outside work, assistance from
friends and relatives is extremely helpful.

12. Case
• June, a 26 year old married woman with
obsessions and compulsions regarding
cleanliness.
• She required 45 minutes in shower and washes
her hands 20 times a day.
• In treatment planning the therapist make use of
imaginal and in vivo exposure techniques.

13. General Anxiety
Disorder

14. • Replacing an anxiety response with a
relaxation response.
• Four-step approach in using relaxation
training.

15. Case
• A 20 year old college girl worries about her
grades, getting into graduate school and getting
all of her work done.
• When stressed accelerated heart rate, sweating,
pressure in her chest and headaches is reported.
• Trained in progressive relaxation and taught to
monitor early anxiety cues.

16. Phobic Disorder

17. • General treatment approach is to reduce
the anxiety.
• Systematic desensitization is paired with
relaxation responses.
• Intense imaginal exposure techniques.
• In vivo exposure and modeling can be
used.

18. Case
• Treatment of a 6 year old girl who had a
phobia of balloons.
• Avoided situations having balloons,
activities including balloons and even have
nightmares about balloons.