Behavioural Therapy

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  • 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