Behavior Therapy

Behavior is the way in which a person, organism, or group responds to a certain set of conditions. "The initial task of a behavior therapist is to identify an understand the client's presenting problem(s)" (pg. 215 Corsini & Wedding) After identifying the clients problem(s) the therapist then proceeds to find the variables that maybe responsible for the problem(s). In class on Wednesday the group talked about a lot of things but a majority of the presentation was on reinforcement. They also talked about unconditioned and conditioned responses which play a bi…