Revealing Secrets to Effective Behavior Modification and Goal Setting

Revealing Secrets to Effective Behavior Modification and Goal Setting Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Qualified Clinical Supervisor. She received her PhD in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida in 2002. In addition to being a practicing clinician, she has provided training to counselors, social workers, nurses and case managers internationally since 2006 through AllCEUs.com A direct link to the CEU course is https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/i...

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Objectives
~ Define behavior modification
~ Explore how behavior modification can be useful in practice
~ Learn basic behavior modification terms:
~ Unconditioned stimulus and response
~ Conditioned stimulus and response
~ Discriminitive stimuli
~ Learned helplessness

Why Do I Care
~ Change means doing something different or modifying a response
~ That response can be a neurochemical one (stress response) or an overt behavioral one (smoking)
~ Behavior modification principles will help you understand some of the reasons people act/react the way they do
~ By understanding what causes and motivates people’s behavior we can better address their issues
~ The focus on observable, measurable conditions to the exclusion of cognitive interpretation underscores the mind-body connection
Definition
~ Behavior modification in its truest form is concerned only with observable, measurable behaviors, stimuli and reinforcement
~ Emotions, interpretations and mental processes have no bearing

How can this be useful in practice
~ Traditional (strict) behavior modification can be quite useful in simplifying stimulus/reaction
~ Integrating the cognitive interpretations (labels) can help people in identifying and addressing what is causing their “distress” (Behaviorists would refer to excitatory response)
~ Understanding what causes feelings can also give people a greater sense of empowerment.

Summary
~ Behavior modification is concerned with the stimuli in the environment that evoke a response
~ Unconditioned stimuli evoke a response based upon survival needs
~ Conditioned stimuli have no meaning to the person, but, through experience, become associated with pleasure or pain/threat
~ The excitatory responses, anger and fear serve to protect the person from what they have in the past experienced as producing pain/being threatening.

Summary
~ Stimuli can be reconditioned in order to change the biochemical response (feeling)
~ People with a logical/experimental mindset often respond well to behavior modification techniques
~ It is imperative to include alternate responses.
~ In the next segment we will discuss
~ Reinforcement
~ Punishment

00:00 Introduction to behavior modification and goal setting
02:00 Common traps in goal setting and relapse prevention
05:00 Principles of behavior modification: Reinforcers and Punishers
09:00 Understanding discriminative stimuli and creating supportive environments
12:00 Neurochemical responses and triggers
16:00 Mindlessness and automatic behaviors
19:00 Helping clients become mindful of their actions and triggers
23:00 Observing measurable behavior changes in clients
27:00 Goal-setting strategies: Measurable anchor points
31:00 Addressing emotional responses to environmental stimuli
35:00 The role of pain in affecting mood and behavior
39:00 Techniques for identifying and addressing unconditioned stimuli
43:00 The impact of negative stimuli and how to recondition responses
47:00 Positive stimuli and their role in improving mood
51:00 The power of environmental changes in improving emotional regulation
55:00 Using behavior modification to prevent learned helplessness
59:00 Summary and reflections on behavior modification strategies
65:00 Conclusion and final thoughts