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Self-Control Therapy
Description of the Strategy
Self-control therapies are strategies for teaching people skills and techniques for controlling their own behavior when striving to achieve long-term goals. It is usually assumed that people employ self-control strategies implicitly in their efforts to change behavior, such as when starting a diet or exercise program or attempting to quit smoking. Self-control therapies attempt to teach these strategies in an explicit way. A number of self-control models are used as the basis for self-control theories. One example is the selfmanagement therapy (SMT) program for depression developed by the author.
SMT is a structured, manualized, ...
- Assessment - Adult Clinical Applications
- Behavioral Case Formulation
- Behavioral Working Alliance
- Behaviorology
- Computers and Behavioral Assessment
- Descriptive and Functional Analyses
- Intensive Behavior Therapy Unit
- Philosophical Aspects of Behaviorism
- Private Events
- Private Practice of Behavioral Treatment
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Role Playing
- Self-Monitoring
- Setting Events
- Termination
- Therapeutic Relationship
- Treatment Compliance in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Assessment - Child Clinical Applications
- Assessment - Educational Applications
- ABC Charts and Scatterplots
- Archival Records
- Behavior Rating Scales
- Behavioral Assessment
- Behavioral Assessment Interviews
- Behavioral Consultation
- Behavioral Observations (Event/Interval)
- Changing Criterion Design
- Curriculum-Based Assessment
- Direct Observation
- Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)
- Early-Risk Screening for School-Related Behavior Disorders
- Functional Behavioral Assessment of Problem Behavior
- Individualized Education Program (IEP)
- Program Evaluation
- Rate and Frequency
- Standard Celeration Chart System
- Trend Line
- Visual Analysis of Graphic Data
- Autobiographies and Biographies - Adult Clinical Applications
- Agras, W. Stewart
- Azrin, Nathan H.
- Barlow, David H.
- Beck, Aaron T.
- Bellack, Alan S.
- Cautela, Joseph R.
- Davison, Gerald C.
- Emmelkamp, Paul M. G.
- Foa, Edna B.
- Franks, Cyril M.
- Goldiamond, Israel
- Hersen, Michel
- Kanfer, Frederick H.
- Kazdin, Alan E.
- Lazarus, A. A.
- Lewinsohn, Peter A.
- Marks, Isaac M.
- Marshall, William L.
- Meichenbaum, Donald H.
- Miltenberger, Raymond G.
- Paul, Gordon L.
- Pavlov, Ivan P.
- Skinner, Burrhus Frederic
- Suinn, Richard M.
- Turner, Samuel M.
- Wolpe, Joseph
- Biographies - Child Clinical Applications
- Biographies - Educational Applications
- Major Techniques - Adult Clinical Applications
- Anger Management
- Anxiety/Anger Management Training
- Applied Relaxation and Tension
- Behavioral Approaches to Schizophrenia
- Behavioral Approaches to Sexual Deviation
- Behavioral Assessment
- Behavioral Gerontology
- Behavioral Group Work
- Behavioral Medicine
- Behavioral Treatment for Aggression in Couples
- Behavioral Treatment for the Addictions
- Behavioral Weight Control Treatments
- Biofeedback
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Coping With Depression
- Coverant Control
- Covert Sensitization Conditioning
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Eating Disorders
- Electrical Aversion
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
- Flooding
- Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
- Manualized Behavior Therapy
- Memory Rehabilitation After Traumatic Brain Injury
- Modeling
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multimodal Behavior Therapy
- Operant Conditioning
- Organizational Behavior Management
- Panic Control Treatment
- Pharmacotherapy and Behavior Therapy
- Private Practice of Behavioral Treatment
- Progressive Muscular Relaxation
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy
- Relapse Prevention
- Relaxation Strategies
- Role Playing
- Self-Control Therapy
- Self-Management
- Social Skills Training
- Stampfl's Therapist Directed Implosive (Flooding) Therapy
- Systematic Desensitization
- Termination
- Therapeutic Relationship
- Token Economy
- Trauma Management Therapy
- Treatment Compliance in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Major Techniques - Child Clinical Applications
- Adolescent Anger Management
- Antecedent Control Procedures
- Anxiety Management
- Assertiveness Training
- Aversive Conditioning
- Avoidance Training
- Behavior Management for Improving Academic and Classroom Behavior
- Behavioral Consultation
- Behavioral Contracting
- Behavioral Family Therapy
- Behavioral Group Therapy With Children and Youth
- Behavioral Weight Control Therapy With Children
- Bell and Pad Bladder Training
- Biofeedback
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Contingency Management
- Counterconditioning
- Discrete Trial Therapy
- Drug Abuse Prevention Strategies
- Exposure and Response Prevention
- Extinction
- Flooding
- Full-Spectrum Home Training for Simple Bed-Wetting
- Function Communication Training
- Habit Reversal
- In Vivo Desensitization
- Life Skills Training
- Manualized Behavior Therapy
- Modeling
- Multisystemic Therapy
- Negative Reinforcement
- Overcorrection
- Pain Management
- Parent Training
- Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
- Peer Intervention
- Pharmacotherapy
- Point System
- Positive Reinforcement
- Premack Principle
- Punishment
- Relapse Prevention
- Relaxation Training in Children
- Response Blocking
- Response Cost
- Self-Injury and Suicide
- Shaping
- Social and Interpersonal Skills Training
- Social Competence Treatment: Externalizing Disorders
- Sport Skill Training
- Systematic Desensitization With Children and Adolescents
- Time-Out
- Token Economy
- Major Techniques - Educational Applications
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Behavior Management
- Classroom Management
- Direct Instruction
- Direct Instruction Mathematics
- Function-Based Approach to Behavior Support: Logic, Practices, and Systems
- Functional Analysis
- Person-Centered Planning
- Positive Behavior Support
- Progress Monitoring: Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Applications
- School Emergency Procedures
- Schoolwide Discipline
- Single-Subject Research Design
- Wraparound
- Minor Techniques - Adult Clinical Applications
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Applied Tension
- Arousal Training
- Autogenic Training
- Aversion Relief
- Behavior Activation
- Behavior Rehearsal
- Behavioral Approaches to Gambling
- Behavioral Assessment
- Behavioral Contracting
- Behavioral Treatment of Cigarette Smoking
- Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia
- Behaviorology
- Bibliotherapy
- Breathing Retraining
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Religious Beliefs and Practices
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Bipolar Disorder
- Competing Response Training
- Controlled Drinking
- Covert Positive Reinforcement
- Covert Rehearsal
- Covert Reinforcer Sampling
- Cue-Controlled Relaxation
- Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior
- Exposure
- Extinction and Habituation
- Group Behavioral Therapy for Depression
- Guided Mastery
- Habit Reversal
- Homework
- Intensive Behavior Therapy Unit
- Job Club Method
- Masturbatory Retraining
- Mindfulness Meditation
- Motivational Enhancement Therapy
- Noncontingent Reinforcement
- Orgasmic Reconditioning
- Overcorrection
- Paradoxical Intention
- Person-Centered Planning
- Private Practice of Behavioral Treatment
- Problem-Solving Therapy
- Reinforcement
- Relational Frame Therapy
- Response Prevention
- Schedule-Induced Behavior
- Self-Control
- Self-Control Desensitization
- Self-Monitoring
- Self-Statement Modification
- Setting Events
- Shadowing
- Social Effectiveness Training
- Spouse-Aided Therapy
- Squeeze Technique
- Stress Inoculation Training
- Termination
- Therapeutic Relationship
- Thought-Stopping
- Video Feedback
- Virtual Reality Therapy
- Minor Techniques - Child Clinical Applications
- 3-5-10-15 Method for Spelling
- Aromatic Ammonia
- Attention Training Procedures
- Beat the Buzzer
- Behavioral Rehearsal
- Chore and Allowance Program for Children
- Competing Response Training
- Compliance Training
- Contingent Exercise
- Contingent Restraint
- Correspondence Training
- Covert Conditioning With Children and Adolescents
- Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior
- Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Behavior
- Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior
- Discrimination Training
- Donald M. Baer
- Errorless Compliance Training
- Escape Training
- Facial Screening
- Fading
- Feedback
- Five-Step Procedure for Stealing
- Generalized Conditioned Punisher
- Generalized Conditioned Reinforcer
- Goal Setting
- Good Behavior Game
- Graduated Extinction
- Group Contingency
- Habituation
- Home-Based Reinforcement
- Homework
- Imaginal Procedures
- Lemon Juice Therapy
- Marking Time-Out
- Massed Practice
- Negative Practice
- Noncontingent Reward (Reinforcement)
- Positive Practice
- Problem-Solving Training
- Prompt
- Public Posting
- Regulated Breathing
- Reinforced Practice
- Restitution
- Retention Control Training
- Ritual Prevention
- Role Playing
- Self-Instruction Training
- Self-Monitoring
- Self-Praise
- Sensory Extinction
- Somatic Control Strategies
- Spontaneous Recovery
- Sticker/Star Chart
- Stimulus Control
- Stimulus Discrimination Training
- Task Analysis
- Thought Stopping
- Transfer of Stimulus Control
- Vicarious Conditioning
- Vicarious Extinction
- Vicarious Punishment
- Vicarious Reinforcement
- Virtual Reality Therapy With Children
- Water Misting
- Write-Say Method
- Minor Techniques - Educational Applications
- Academic Interventions
- Active Student Responding
- Active Supervision
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Beginning Reading
- Behavior Intervention Planning
- Behavioral Contracting
- Behavioral Momentum
- Behavioral Objectives
- Behavioral Rehearsal
- Chaining
- Choral Responding
- Classwide Peer Tutoring
- Corporal Punishment
- Cross-Age Tutoring
- Detention
- Differential Reinforcement
- Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior
- Discrete Trial Instruction
- Discrimination Training
- Error Correction
- Errorless Learning
- Extinction
- Fading
- Functional Communication Training
- General Case Programming
- Incidental Teaching
- Learned Helplessness
- Long-Term Objectives
- Mainstreaming
- Mastery Learning
- Negative Reinforcement
- Noncontingent Reinforcement as a Treatment for Problem Behavior in the Classroom
- Operant Conditioning
- Opportunity to Respond
- Pacing
- Peer Tutoring
- Pivotal Response Training
- Positive Peer Reporting
- Positive Reinforcement
- Precision Teaching
- Precorrection
- Preference and Reinforcer Identification
- Premack Principle
- Programmed Instruction
- Prompting
- Schedules of Reinforcement
- Self-Assessment
- Self-Instruction
- Self-Management
- Shaping to Teach New Behaviors
- Short-Term Objectives
- Social Skills Instruction
- Suspension
- Task Analysis
- Task Interspersal
- Teaching Schoolwide Expectations
- Teaching Students Self-Control
- Time Delay Instructional Procedure
- Time-Out
- Token Economy
- Research - Adult Clinical Applications
- Research - Educational Applications
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Conduct Disorders
- Effective Learning Environments
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Learning Disabilities
- Project Follow Through and Direct Instruction
- Self-Determination
- Sleep Deprivation
- Speech and Language Disorders
- Research and Theoretical - Child Clinical Applications
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Behavior Therapy
- Behavioral Pediatrics
- Case Conceptualization
- Classical Conditioning
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Child Clinical Applications
- Empirically Supported Treatments for Childhood Disorders
- Functional Analysis
- Generalization
- Maintenance
- Operant Conditioning
- Paradigmatic Behavior Therapy
- Research Designs
- Schedules of Reinforcement
- Theoretical and Conceptual Issues - Adult Clinical Applications
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy
- Behavior Therapy and Neuropsychology
- Behavior Therapy Theory
- Behavior Training
- Behavioral Analytic Approach to Supervision
- Behavioral Consultation
- Behavioral Social Work
- Behavioral Sport Psychology
- Behavioral Treatment in Natural Environments
- Behavioral Treatments of Minorities
- Behavioral Working Alliance
- Classical Conditioning
- Contextualism
- Cultural Differences in Cognitive Therapy
- Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Patient-Focused Research
- Historical Antecedents of Behavior Modification and Therapy
- Kantor's Interbehaviorism
- Philosophical Aspects of Behaviorism
- Private Events
- Schedules of Reinforcement
- Therapeutic Relationship
- Treatment Compliance in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Treatment Failures in Behavior Therapy
- Theoretical Issues - Educational Applications
- Acquisition
- Antecedent
- Baseline
- Beginning Reading Instruction
- Behavioral Dimensions
- Behavioral Fluency
- Character Education
- Coercive Cycles in Families
- Consequence
- Contextual Fit
- Contextualism and Behavior Analysis
- Contingencies in Educational Settings
- Deprivation
- Establishing Operations
- Ethical Issues Regarding Behavior Management in the Schools
- Functional Relation
- Functions of Behavior
- Generalization
- Maintenance
- Operant
- Phases of Learning
- Preventing Escalated Behavior: Strategies for Defusing Problem Behavior
- Problem-Solving Consultation Model
- Punishment
- Response Class Theory
- Response Cost
- Rule-Governed Behavior
- Rules
- Satiation
- Setting Event
- Social Competence
- Stimulus Control
- Systems of Care
- Testable Hypothesis
- Zero Tolerance
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