The video for this presentation is available on our Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/allceuseducation A continuing education course for this presentation can be found at https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/index?c= Overview of principles of behavior modification and how those principles such as reinforcement, punishment and shaping can be used to develop treatment plans and assist our patients. This powerpoint is part of AllCEU's Addiction Counselor Training Series. This section focuses on developmental theories of Erickson, Piaget, Vygotsky and many more. In class we discussed how trauma during a developmental period or failure to achieve developmental milestones may impact later social and emotional development. Each week we provide 8 hours of face-to-face continuing education and precertification training to LPCs, LADCs, and those wishing to become addiction counselors. Many states allow precertification to be done via online learning as well. We are approved education providers by NAADAC #599 and NBCC #6261.

1. Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, NCC, LMHC
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4.  Learn how to define target behaviors
 Define: discriminitive stimuli, reinforcement,
punishment, reinforcement schedules,
chaining, behavior strain, extinction burst,
extinction
 Practice applying these terms to behaviors
 Identify ways to effectively apply punishment
and reinforcement to modify behavior
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5.  Polly the Pigeon and the Hokey Pokey
 Self-Injurious Behaviors (smoking, drinking,
binge eating, cutting, gambling etc.)
 Parenting Issues (doing homework,
preventing alcohol use, doing chores)
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6.  Behavior
◦ Observable
◦ Measurable
 Frequency
 Intensity
 Duration
 Likert?
◦ Time limited
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7.  Polly the Pigeon’s Behavior
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 Child’s Behavior
 (Observable, measurable(f/i/d), time limited)
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10.  Reinforcement
◦ +Positive Reinforcement ADDS something good
◦ -Negative Reinforcement TAKES AWAY something
bad
 Examples
◦ Polly
◦ Smoking
◦ Anxiety
◦ Chores—Cleaning the kitchen
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13.  Punishment
◦ Anything unpleasant or unwanted that reduces the
likelihood a behavior will recur
◦ +Positive Punishment adds something unpleasant
◦ -Negative Punishment takes away something desired
 Examples
◦ Polly
◦ Smoking
◦ Anxiety
◦ Chores—Cleaning the kitchen
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14.  Schedules of Reinforcement/Punishment
◦ Interval—Time not behavior dependent
 Fixed--Bills
 Variable--Rain
◦ Ratio
 Fixed--Weight loss
 Variable--Chores
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15.  Discriminitive Stimuli
◦ Things in the person or environment that trigger
the person to do the behavior
 Examples
◦ Polly
◦ Smoking
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◦ Chores—Cleaning the kitchen
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17.  Behavior Strain—
◦ When the costs outweigh the benefits
◦ Too long between rewards
◦ Reward is insufficient
 Extinction Burst
◦ Increases in frequency or intensity of behaving in order
to receive reward (computer clicking)
◦ Most common in ratio-based schedules
◦ Behavior intensifies until reward or punishment is
applied OR until the costs outweigh the benefits. (Candy
kid)
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18.  Shaping
◦ Rewarding successive approximations of a behavior
 Example
◦ Polly
◦ Smoking
◦ Anxiety
◦ Cleaning the kitchen
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19.  Engvall talking about quitting smoking says:
“If I quit smoking, I’m going to kill you. Then
I’ll go to prison where I’ll need cigarettes as
currency.”
 Chaining is really about looking at how one
behavior leads to another.
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20. Thoughts
of
Smoking
Places
Times
Activities
Sensory
Emotions
Smoking
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21.  Changing behavior requires
◦ Adequately defining the behavior
◦ Understanding and addressing the reinforcers
maintaining it
◦ Identifying and dealing with discriminitive stimuli
triggering it
◦ Understanding and addressing the negative
consequences (punishments) of the change
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