"Behaviour therapy or behavioural psychotherapy is a broad term referring to clinical psychotherapy that uses techniques derived from behaviourism and/or cognitive psychology. It looks at specific, learned behaviours and how the environment, or other people's mental states, influences those behaviours, and consists of techniques based on behaviorism's theory of learning: respondent or operant conditioning."
Examines how behavioral psychology can help us understand and treat mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, and addiction.
Abnormal Psychology: The study of abnormal behavior, thoughts, and emotions that deviate from cultural norms and can cause distress to individuals.
Anxiety Disorders: A group of disorders characterized by excessive fear or worry, including general anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Mood Disorders: A group of disorders characterized by persistent fluctuations in mood, including depression and bipolar disorder.
Personality Disorders: A group of disorders characterized by maladaptive patterns of behavior, thoughts, and emotions, including borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and antisocial personality disorder.
Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders: A group of severe mental disorders characterized by a break from reality, including hallucinations and delusions.
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders: Disorders related to substance use and addiction, including alcoholism, drug addiction, and gambling addiction.
Eating Disorders: Disorders related to abnormal patterns of eating, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.
Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders: Disorders related to sexual orientation and gender identity, including sexual dysfunctions, gender dysphoria, and paraphilias.
Dissociative Disorders: A group of disorders characterized by a disruption in the normal integration of consciousness, identity, and/or memory, including dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder).
Sleep Disorders: Disorders related to sleep patterns, including insomnia, sleep apnea, and narcolepsy.
Child and Adolescent Disorders: Disorders that arise in childhood and adolescence, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, and conduct disorder.
Geriatric Disorders: Disorders related to aging, including dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders: Disorders related to exposure to traumatic or stressful events, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and acute stress disorder.
Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Disorders related to abnormal brain development, including intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Cognitive and Perceptual Disorders: Disorders related to alterations in cognitive perception, including delirium, dementia, and amnesia.
Anxiety Disorders: These disorders include Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, and others that involve excessive feelings of nervousness, fear, and worry leading to avoidance of situations that trigger these feelings.
Mood Disorders: Mood disorders include major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and cyclothymic disorder. These disorders involve severe disturbances in a person's mood leading to changes in behavior, energy, sleep, and cognitive processes.
Personality Disorders: These disorders involve enduring, inflexible patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that differ from societal and cultural expectations. Borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and antisocial personality disorder are some common personality disorders.
Psychotic Disorders: Psychotic disorders involve a loss of contact with reality, leading to delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, and speech. Schizophrenia is the most common type of psychotic disorder.
Substance Use Disorders: Substance use disorders involve excessive use of drugs, alcohol, and other substances that negatively impact a person's physical, psychological, social, and financial well-being.
Eating Disorders: These disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. They involve extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding food and body weight leading to physical and psychological harm.
Sleep Disorders: Sleep disorders include insomnia, narcolepsy, and sleep apnea. They involve disturbances in sleep, leading to daytime fatigue, impaired cognitive functions, and mood disturbances.
"Behaviourists who practice these techniques are either behaviour analysts or cognitive-behavioural therapists."
"They tend to look for treatment outcomes that are objectively measurable."
"Behaviour therapy does not involve one specific method, but it has a wide range of techniques that can be used to treat a person's psychological problems."
"Behavioural psychotherapy is sometimes juxtaposed with cognitive psychotherapy. While cognitive behavioural therapy integrates aspects of both approaches..."
"Applied behaviour analysis (ABA) is the application of behaviour analysis that focuses on functionally assessing how behaviour is influenced by the observable learning environment and how to change such behaviour through contingency management or exposure therapies..."
"Cognitive-behavioural therapy views cognition and emotions as preceding overt behaviour and implements treatment plans in psychotherapy to lessen the issue by managing competing thoughts and emotions, often in conjunction with behavioural learning principles."
"A 2013 Cochrane review comparing behaviour therapies to psychological therapies found them to be equally effective..."
"It uses techniques derived from behaviourism and/or cognitive psychology."
"It looks at specific, learned behaviours..."
"...and how the environment, or other people's mental states, influences those behaviours..."
"...consists of techniques based on behaviorism's theory of learning: respondent or operant conditioning."
"They tend to look for treatment outcomes that are objectively measurable."
"Behaviourists who practice these techniques are either behaviour analysts or cognitive-behavioural therapists."
"Cognitive-behavioural therapy views cognition and emotions as preceding overt behaviour..."
"...cognitive restructuring, positive reinforcement, habituation (or desensitisation), counterconditioning, and modelling."
"Applied behaviour analysis (ABA) is the application of behaviour analysis that focuses on functionally assessing how behaviour is influenced by the observable learning environment..."
"...implements treatment plans in psychotherapy to lessen the issue by managing competing thoughts and emotions..."
"A 2013 Cochrane review comparing behaviour therapies to psychological therapies found them to be equally effective..."
"...at the time the evidence base that evaluates the benefits and harms of behaviour therapies was weak."