Psychology 1000 Final: FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE (W/ ANSWERS).docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Relaxation and stress management training important tool in the treatment of addictive behaviours self monitoring procedures: coping and social skills training marital and family counselling positive reinforcement procedures: strengthen change help the person identify the antecedents and consequences of the abuse behaviours; for dealing with high risk situations that trigger abuse to reduce conflicts and increase social support for change. Systematic desensitization: a new learning based treatment for anxiety disorders, remains a widely used treatment today, goal is to eliminate the anxiety by using a procedure called counterconditioning, in which a new response that is incompatible with anxiety is conditioned to the anxiety arousing cs, use a stimulus hierarchy starting at low anxiety scenes and moving up to higher ones, can also be real life scenes (in vivo desensitization, both methods are highly effective, systematic desensitization causes less anxiety for the patient but works slower than exposure.