NCJ Number: 183026
Title: Radical Behavior Interventions (From Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation, Fourth Edition,
P 129-148, 2000, Patricia Van Voorhis, Michael Braswell, et al. -- See NCJ-183019)
Author(s): David Lester; Michael Braswell; Patricia Van Voorhis
Date Published: 2000
Page Count: 20
Sponsoring Agency: Anderson Publishing Co
Sale Source: Anderson Publishing Co
Type: Instructional Material
Format: Book (Softbound)
Language: English
Country: United States of America
Annotation: This discussion of radical behavior interventions discusses
classical conditioning, operant conditioning, decreasing
problematic behaviors, radical behavioral approaches with
offenders, and the stability of newly acquired or decelerated
behaviors.
Abstract: Behavior modification, or behavior therapy, is a stark contrast
to the psychoanalytical, insight-oriented strategies of
treatment. The research is showing that the best chances of
achieving success with offenders rests with the radical behavior
strategies presented in this chapter and with related cognitive,
cognitive behavioral, and social learning methods discussed in
the following two chapters. Behavior approaches differ from
psychoanalytical approaches in focusing on the present and in
attempting to increase or decrease specific target behaviors.
Behavior therapists devote little attention to the emotional
sources of problematic behaviors and instead focus on identifying
the current conditions that are maintaining or discouraging these
behaviors. Radical behavior interventions may occur with no
interaction at all between the therapist and the client, because
the vehicle for change is not the counseling relationship but
rather the therapist's manipulation of stimuli, rewards, and
punishments, the mechanisms that instigate and maintain behavior.
Finally, behaviorists make no assumption that pathology or
illness is the cause of dysfunctional behavior. In the learning
perspective, problematic behavior is no different from normal
behavior. Both are learned in the same way and can be explained
by using the same models for learning. This chapter highlights
considerations for planners of behavior modification programs. 4
figures, key concepts and terms, and discussion questions
Main Term(s): Corrections policies
Index Term(s): Behavior modification; Counseling in correctional settings; Counseling techniques; Treatment techniques
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