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1
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Define Habit Disorders

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Habits of such intensity that they cause personal harm or significant social problems for a person

2
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Four components of habit reversal:

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awareness training; competing responses training; social support; motivation procedures

3
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What is awareness training?

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Teaching the individual to recognise when a habit is occuring

4
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What is the first step in awareness training?

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Working with the client to operationally define the behaviour

5
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What is the second step in awareness training?

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teach the person to identify the onset of the behaviour (or when it is about to happen)

6
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For the person to identify habits it may be necessary to help them understand the ____ that precede behaviour or point out behaviour’s ____

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antecedents; occurence

7
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Competing response training teaches clients…

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behaviours that are incompatible with the problem behaviour

8
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A behaviour that is incompatible with the response training is called…

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a competing response

9
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First the competing response is practised for ___ - __ minutes after each occurrence of ____ ____

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1-3 minutes; problem behaviour

10
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Try to make the competing response ____ to others. Ask clients to imagine situations…

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unnoticeable; in which s/he is likely to use the competing response

11
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Finally, following competing response training the client is instructed…

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to use the response whenever the habit occurs (or is about to)

12
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Social support is necessary because…

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individuals may not realise when they’re engaging in the behaviour

13
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Helping the client identify when a habit is occurring and prompting competing responses are part of which component?

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Social support

14
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What component deals with providing motivation for behavioural change?

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Motivation strategies

15
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Motivation strat: Asking the client to identify situations…

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where the behaviour has embarrassed or inconvenienced them previously

16
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Motivation strat: Ask the client how their lives…

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would be different if they didn’t engage in the behaviour

17
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Motivation strat: Use _____ reinforcement from others

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social

18
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Awareness training is tied to the principle of

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stimulus control

19
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Competing responses are tied to the basic principles of… (2 answers)

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  • DRA (reinf’t of alternative)

- Punish’t (in the form of over-correction)

20
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Give a limitation to the use of habit reversal procedures

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cannot be used with some populations (young children, learning disabilities) as they cannot effectively engage in required skills