Behavioural Therapy

• What is it?

  • umbrella term for types of therapy that treat mental health disorders or personality disorders
  • aversion therapy
• What theory informs the Policy?

  • Bandura: Social Learning Theory
  • Freud: Psychoanalysis
  • Eysenck: Personality Theory
• Application

  • aversion therapy seeks to change potentially destructive behaviours based on the idea that behaviour is learnt
  • an aversion stimulus is paired with an undesirable behaviour to reduce or eliminate it
• Arguments For

  • conditional behaviour
  • supports individualistic theories
• Arguments Against

  • not always humane
• Does it Work?

  • can be used to find the underlying cause of some violent crimes
  • not conclusive in its findings