Behavior modification

Behavior modification is a term introduced by Ullmann and Krasner for the application of psychological learning techniques to change deviant or undesirable behavior .

description

To Verhaltensmodidikation by Ullmann and Krasner include, for example, desensitization , setting changes within the meaning of rule learning , operant conditioning , Token strategies and behavior shaping . In this older and general sense, behavior modification is almost synonymous with behavior therapy .

In a narrower sense, it is a term for a variety of treatment techniques that were developed following the cognitive emotion and stress theories and are considered cognitive behavior modification ( cognitive behavior modification ) or semantic behavior modification ( semantic behavior modification ).

Disturbances are approached argumentatively and directly via assessment and evaluation processes in order to induce the client to reinterpret his life problems, to move him to a realistic reassessment of his situation, to improve his control over the relevant environmental conditions and thus to change the situation and Contribute to self-assessment.

In many cases, behavior modification techniques are combined with other therapeutic methods.

Definition of scientific behavior modification:

“The behavior modification is a methodical approach for the most diverse problem situations. It includes a systematic anamnesis and behavioral analysis of the entire problem situation and derived the goals of an intervention in cooperation with the persons concerned / clients. To achieve these goals, she uses a wide variety of interventions, derived and justified from the problem analysis, to achieve the goal of the intervention in a planned manner. These interventions include in particular the application of the laws of learning, but also all other scientific and empirically based methods of the social sciences. "

- Ulrich Bartmann : "Behavior modification as a method of social work - a guide". dgvt-Verlag, published 2007 (2nd edition), page 24

Behavior modification is u. a. taught at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt in the social work course (Bachelor).

See also

• behavior
• Behavior analysis
• Behavior patterns

literature

• Ulrich Bartmann: Behavior Modification as a Method of Social Work: A Guide . 3rd edition, Dgvt-Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3871593147 .
• Donald W. Meichenbaum: Cognitive behavior modification . BeltzPVU 2010, ISBN 978-3621273022 .

Web links

• German Society for Behavioral Medicine and Behavior Modification eV (DGVM)
• AVM Working Group for Behavior Modification eV
• AVM Working Group for Behavior Modification Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ compare: Brockhaus Psychologie, Mannheim, Leipzig 2009, p. 661: Change in behavior on the basis of experimentally proven psychological learning .