Behavior Therapy & Relationships (Certificate of Completion)

Explore how environmental influences and epigenetic marks regulate gene expression, showing that early experiences shape gene activation and that nature and nurture interact in development.

Explore how belief forms our perception and drives behavior, from sensation and perception to belief bias, confirmation bias, and belief perseverance across cultures.

Explore social, moral, and emotional development across Erikson's psychosocial stages, Piaget and Kohlberg's moral reasoning, and how schools foster trust, autonomy, industry, and identity.

Explore four parenting styles—authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved—and their child outcomes, including discipline methods and effects on self-esteem, health, and relationships, with authoritative as the recommended approach.

Explore the behavioral model behind behavior therapy, distinguishing overt and covert behaviors and four modes, including cognitions, emotions, and physiological responses, and comparing traits to specific behaviors.

The abc model describes antecedents, behaviors, and consequences, and shows how prompts and setting events maintain actions, guiding behavior therapy to change clients' problem behaviors.

The lecture outlines the eight steps of behavior therapy from clarifying the client’s problem to follow-up assessments, detailing target behaviors, maintaining conditions, treatment design, implementation, and evaluation.

Discover the eight most frequently used behavioral assessment methods in behavior therapy, including interviews, self-report inventories, self-recording, checklists, naturalistic observation, role playing, and physiological measurement.

Learn how a behavior therapist uses multimethod assessment, anger diary, and home observations to design and monitor treatment for domestic violence.

Explore stimulus control procedures that initiate target behaviors by adjusting antecedents and consequences within the ABC model, and master four types of prompts—verbal, environmental, physical, and behavioral—plus fade-in strategies.

Explore how reinforcement strengthens target behaviors through positive and negative reinforcement, distinguishing reinforcement from punishment, and identify contingent, immediate reinforcers and seven guidelines for long term maintenance.

Explore how differential reinforcement accelerates an alternative behavior to reduce undesirable ones, examine time-out from generalized reinforcers, and review negative and positive punishment guidelines.

Apply aversion therapy to decelerate maladaptive behaviors by pairing them with aversive stimuli such as shock or nausea, and increase adaptive behaviors to reduce substance abuse and paraphilias.

Explore how the DSM-5-TR classifies mental disorders, uses ICD-10-CM codes, and organizes diagnoses across neurodevelopmental to personality disorders for clinical practice.

Explore the DSM-5-TR criteria for bipolar I disorder, including manic episodes, hypomania, major depressive episodes, and diagnostic considerations for impairment and substance exclusion.

Explore token economies that use tokens and backup reinforcers to motivate adaptive behaviors, with step-by-step design, plus behavioral parent training to teach clear instructions and reinforcement strategies.

Explore exposure therapy for anxiety and fear, using controlled, safe exposure to reduce maladaptive reactions and to improve functioning through brief graduated and prolonged intense approaches.

Discover cognitive-behavior therapy principles within behavior therapy and relationships, as outlined by the course and lecture title, to enhance understanding and practical application.

Explore the behavioral therapy model by distinguishing overt and covert behaviors. Identify cognitions, emotions, and physiological responses as covert components shaping therapy’s four assessable modes.

Explore how reinforcement strengthens target behaviors, distinguish reinforcers from rewards, and apply positive and negative reinforcement to shape learning and daily actions.

Explore how negative reinforcement differs from punishment, and learn guidelines for using reinforcers to strengthen target behaviors and maintain long-term change.

Reflect on the most intriguing course concepts, articulate a personal reflection, and develop a plan of action to apply behavior therapy insights to your personal and professional relationships.