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Class - XII

Psychology

Chapter 5: Therapeutic Approaches

MODULE - 3

(Topics: Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Therapy and CBT)

Short Note

▪ Behaviour therapy focuses on the behaviour and thoughts of the client in the
present as it postulates faulty behaviour patterns or thought patterns as the causes
of psychological distress.
▪ The past is relevant only to the extent of understanding the origins of the faulty
behaviour and thought patterns and the faulty patterns are corrected in the
present.
▪ The foundation of behaviour therapy is on formulating dysfunctional or faulty
behaviours, the factors which reinforce and maintain these behaviours, and
devising methods by which they can be changed.
▪ Method of Treatment-
➢ Behavioural analysis is conducted to find malfunctioning behaviours, the
antecedents of faulty learning, and the factors that maintain or continue faulty
learning.
➢ Malfunctioning behaviours are those behaviours which cause distress to the
client.
➢ Antecedent factors are those causes which predispose the person to indulge in
that behaviour.
➢ Maintaining factors are those factors which lead to the persistence of the faulty
behaviour.
➢ The aim of the treatment is to
~ extinguish or eliminate the faulty behaviours and
~ substitute them with adaptive behaviour patterns.
➢ The therapist does this through establishing antecedent operations and
consequent operations.
➢ Antecedent operations control behaviour by changing something that precedes
such a behaviour.
➢ The change can be done by increasing or decreasing the reinforcing value of a
particular consequence. This is called establishing operation.
➢ Consequent operations are the encouragement given for the changed
behaviour which helps in establishing the behaviour.