- Broadly to cover all problem behaviors
- Subjectively based on the therapist's opinion
- Operationally (observable and measurable)
- By the patient's family alone
No category found.
- Negative punishment
- Fixed-interval reinforcement
- Contingency management
- Extinction
- Ensuring the intervention is the most expensive option
- Using the most restrictive interventions first
- Obtaining informed consent and ensuring the least restrictive alternative
- Focusing solely on punishment
- Challenging negative thoughts
- Increasing engagement in pleasurable and meaningful activities
- Exploring past traumas
- Prescribing antidepressant medication
- Escape from pain
- Attention
- Sensory stimulation
- Tangible access (e.g., medication)
- Positive reinforcement
- Negative reinforcement
- Negative punishment (response cost)
- Positive punishment
- Flooding
- Systematic desensitization (in vivo exposure)
- Aversion therapy
- Contingency management
- To predict future behavior
- To compare the effectiveness of the intervention
- To determine the cause of the behavior
- To establish rapport with the client
- Positive reinforcement
- Negative reinforcement
- Aversion therapy
- Systematic desensitization
- Psychoanalysis
- Humanistic therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
- Fixed-interval schedule
- Response cost
- Token economy
- Negative punishment
- Relaxation training
- Sleep restriction
- Stimulus control for insomnia
- Cognitive restructuring
- Positive punishment
- Negative reinforcement
- Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA)
- Extinction burst
- Chaining
- Shaping
- Flooding
- Aversion therapy
- Administer a PRN sedative
- Redirect the patient with a familiar activity or comfort item
- Restrain the patient to prevent pacing
- Tell the patient their spouse is deceased
- Attention
- Escape from demand
- Tangible access
- Sensory stimulation
- Administering medication to reduce anxiety
- Gradually exposing the patient to dirt and preventing handwashing
- Using positive reinforcement for not washing hands
- Challenging the patient's irrational thoughts about germs
- Flooding the client with live spiders
- Teaching the client deep muscle relaxation techniques
- Identifying the client's irrational thoughts about spiders
- Encouraging the client to avoid all spiders
