Behavioral Therapy

Catalog description

Beginning with the work of the major learning theorists such as Pavlov, Hull, Thorndike, and Skinner the course examines the basic theories and techniques that underlie the behavioral therapy approach in clinical psychology. Using recent studies in empirical verification of therapeutic approaches, the course will review the use of specific behavioral interventions with such disorders as anxiety, behavior problems, phobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Previously PSYCG 1636. Prerequisites PSYCG 1530 Introduction to Psychotherapy; PSYCG 1602 Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior