Behavior Therapy

An effort has been made to strip Behavior Therapy of the confusion surrounding it , to give it a more solid scientific base. Concepts such as Stimuli and Responses, and Classical and Operant Behaviors have been done away with, replaced with the simple notion of a Behavior as being any bodily activity, both external as well as internal; a Behavior being undertaken solely for Positive Reinforcements, either directly or as a consequence of escape from aversive situations.

Learning or Conditioning, it is maintained, is the result of Behavior and Reinforcement being associated with each other, regardless of the time interval or which comes first, or whether the organism actually carries out the Behavior or actually receives the reinforcement. Discussed also is the perceptual magnification of the reinforcement that takes place after it has first been received.

It is shown that extinction of an undesirable Behavior (whether approach or avoidance) cannot take place unless Counter-Conditioning of the desired Behavior is carried out with a positive reinforcement. Counter-Conditioning thus is the key to Behavioral change.

Finally it is emphasized that food or the wrong kind of it, can call forth disturbing thoughts in a client, despite the lack of any positive reinforcement as in masochism, as well as a host of other irrational and self-defeating Behaviors.

Duration: 15 days

Class Strength: Max upto 5-7 participants

FEES: Rs 7500