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750 Eats Adams St. Syracuse 315457-7047

Wellness Path Counseling and

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Associates 12 West Genesee St.
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Family Partners in Psychological

Health 7517 Morgan Rd. Liverpool
315-451-0202

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5726, Fulton 315-887-5156, Oswego

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By: Alexa Button, John

Carbonaro Jr., Angie Rawson
and Jennifer Grondin

Behavioral
and

Group

Therapy

Behavioral Therapy
Behavioral therapy is a type of psychotherapy that is based

Disorders that are Treated Using

These Two Therapies

off the theories of classical and operant conditioning. The

idea of behavioral therapy is to focus on the undesirable
action or stimuli of an individual and replace it with a more
acceptable behavior, while enforcing positive and negative
consequences. This type of therapy also helps the
individual understand their bad behavior and why it
undesired. There are many different types of behavioral
therapies. Some of these include:

Cognitive behavioral therapy: CBT is used to

change a persons unhealthy behavior by focusing on their
thoughts, beliefs and emotions. By seeing how they
influence the persons life they can aim to change their
unhealthy behavior patterns.

Dialectical behavior therapy: During this therapy

the therapist assures the patient that his/her behaviors
are valid and understandable while at the same time the
therapist is teaching the patient that they need to take
responsibility for their unhealthy behavior and change it.
The therapist teaches the skills needed to better deal with

Depression

Anxiety disorders
Bipolar disorder

Eating disorders
Schizophrenia

Substance abuse
Phobias

Alcoholism
OCD

Group Therapy
Group therapy involves one or more therapists working
with several people at the same time, sometimes used
alone or integrated with individual therapy and
medication.

Group size 6-12, arranged in a circle

Open session-you can join at any time, Closed
group-only core group members are invited to
participate

Participate as you see fit, role play, engage with

others, try out new behaviors

Less expensive, about 1/3 the cost of an

individual therapist

Improve social skills and trust

See how others handle similar problems

Get different perspectives

Develop confidence

Confidentiality is important, but no guarantee of

privacy

disruptive or unhealthy behavior.

Systematic Desensitization: This therapy is used to

Offers a safe haven

remove the fear response of a phobia and replace it with

Held in community centers, libraries, churches

relaxation techniques to the stimuli that the patient is

afraid of and then gradually using counter conditioning.

Aversion therapy: This therapy involves associating an

and hospitals

Group therapy exceeds APA Div 12(Society of

Clinical Psychology) standards for efficacy for

unhealthy stimuli and behavior with a very unpleasant

depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, panic

unconditioned stimulus, for example using a nausea

disorder, PTSD, social phobia, obsessive-

induced drug for alcoholics.

compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa, binge-

Flooding: This therapy works by exposing the client to

their worst fear. The client will have extreme anxiety until
exhaustion sets in and anxiety decreases. After their panic
dissipates the client finds themselves unharmed, and the
fear is no longer there.

eating disorder, substance use disorder,

schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder,
and general personality disorder.(Gary
Burlingame, PhD, a professor of psychology at
Brigham Young University-Power in numbers)