{"id":7361,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/behavior_modification\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:03","slug":"behavior_modification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/behavior_modification\/","title":{"rendered":"Behavior modification"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>In psychotherapy, a treatment approach that uses techniques such as biofeedback, conditioning, reinforcement, or aversion therapy to extinguish or inhibit inappropriate or maladaptive behavior, rather than remove the causes of such behaviour. &nbsp;It can involve social praise, material reinforcers, and tokens, punishment-oriented techniques, including verbal reprimand, and time-outs when the person receiving the therapy has to reflect on the consequences of his or her behavior. &nbsp;Used in the treatment of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). &nbsp;Also known as behavioural therapy. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder_-adhd-\">Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_behavior_therapy_-cbt-\">Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)<\/a>, <a href=\"desensitizing\">Desensitizing<\/a>, <a href=\"reinforcement_schedule\">Reinforcement schedule<\/a>, <a href=\"reinforcer\">Reinforcer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In psychotherapy, a treatment approach that uses techniques such as biofeedback, conditioning, reinforcement, or aversion therapy to extinguish or inhibit inappropriate or maladaptive behavior, rather than remove the causes of such behaviour. &nbsp;It can involve social praise, material reinforcers, and tokens, punishment-oriented techniques, including verbal reprimand, and time-outs when the person receiving the therapy has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/behavior_modification\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Behavior modification&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}