Module 7

Question 1

Frustration Tolerance

Answer 1

proactive procedure used to teach handling potentially frustrating events

Question 2

Implementing frustration tolerance effectively

Answer 2

• create a hierarchy: what is most tolerable?
  least? steps-in between?
• determine relaxation behaviors: what can i engage in to relax?
• systematically teach when to use relaxation: prime initially- start when calm, teach proactively, introduce low level events in structured situations to practice responses, fade towards more natural settings, gradually move up in hierarchy

Question 3

Systematic Desensitization

Answer 3

common for respondent behavior, gradual exposure to an anxiety producing situation

Question 4

implement

Answer 4

create hierarchy again, gradually expose learner to targeted steps, reinforcement contingent upon calm behavior (can be escape from context), identify criteria for hierarchy movement (what results in move up? down?)

Question 5

Behavior Reduction Plan

Answer 5

• description of the aberrant behavior
• components: operational definition, function of behavior, antecedent modification, replacement behaviors, consequences manipulations, proactive and reactive plans, data collection, crisis management plan