Behaviour therapies
Think functionally about behaviour, and understand what the dismantling studies showed.
Chapter 9Sessions 11/16–11/18
What you should be able to do afterwards
- 1Conduct a functional analysis and state a testable prediction
- 2Distinguish topography from function
- 3Explain negative reinforcement and its clinical centrality
- 4Describe the behavioural activation dismantling findings and what they imply
The reading
Jacobson found in 1996 that behavioural activation alone matched full cognitive therapy for depression. Dimidjian found in 2006 that it matched antidepressant medication and outperformed cognitive therapy in more severe cases. Richards found in 2016 that it could be delivered by junior workers at a fifth of the cost, non-inferior to CBT. That sequence of findings is the strongest argument in the field for taking the simplest effective intervention seriously.
What belongs to this unit
- systemBehavior Therapies→
- formFunctional analysis (ABC)→
- formActivity schedule & behavioural activation→
- sessionA behavioural activation sessionnot yet written
Questions to take away
For a seminar, a supervisor, or an argument with yourself.
- 1Two patients self-harm. What questions distinguish what to do?
- 2If behavioural activation works as well as cognitive therapy, why is cognitive therapy more widely taught?
- 3What ethical constraints should govern arranging another person’s contingencies?
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