Operant Conditioning Therapy functions like the good parent or good teacher in using consistent rewards and occasional punishment, clear instructions, patience, and concern to teach educational and socialization skills. The primary distinction between the operant therapist and a good parent is that the therapist can specify what he is doing and how it works. (10 pp.)
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Behavior Therapy for Adults
Idealized, behavior therapy applies the laws of learning and conditioning as developed in the laboratory, to the alleviation of human maladjustment. In addition, there is a diversity of procedure and an inventive flexibility in adapting psychological technology particularly into cognitive manipulation, use of fantasy, and instructional control. (81 pp.)
Behavior Therapy for Children
Child-behavior therapy deals with deviant behavior and its determining conditions. In contrast, dynamic and client-centered child therapies focus on intrapsychic problems and consider deviant behavior as symptoms of those problems. It devotes its total effort to altering the environmental conditions that maintain the disorder. (72 pp.)
