L2 HBC

Behavior Modification Techniques and Applications

• Behavioral Change Modification has applications in developmental disabilities, mental illness, education, special education, rehabilitation, community psychology, business, industry, human services, clinical psychology, gerontology, child management, sport psychology, and health-related behaviors.
• Strategies for fear and anxiety reduction procedures and modeling are used in behavioral change modification.
• Self-management is a behavior modification technique used when people want to change their own behavior by designing and implementing a self-management program.
• Reinforcement, shaping, promoting transfer of stimulus, and chaining are behavior modification techniques commonly used to modify behavior.
• Reinforcement is a process that strengthens behavior through immediate consequences, and it may occur naturally or be planned as part of a behavior modification program.
• Positive reinforcement involves the addition of a stimulus or an increase in the intensity of a stimulus following a behavior, strengthening the behavior.
• Negative reinforcement involves the removal of a stimulus or a decrease in the intensity of a stimulus following a behavior, strengthening the behavior.
• Behavioral assessment is the measurement of the target behavior and can be direct (observing and recording the behavior) or indirect (using interviews, questionnaires, and rating scales).
• Reactivity in behavioral assessment refers to the phenomenon where the process of recording a behavior causes the behavior to change before any treatment is implemented.
• An exercise on tobacco intervention involves asking about tobacco use at every visit, advising all tobacco users to quit, assessing readiness to quit, assisting tobacco users in quitting, and arranging follow-up.
• Motivational interviewing, self-management, reinforcement, shaping, promoting transfer of stimulus, and chaining are behavior modification techniques used in the exercise on tobacco intervention.
• The exercise on tobacco intervention focuses on implementing an office system for querying tobacco use, advising users to quit, assessing readiness to quit, providing brief counseling, and arranging follow-up for tobacco users.