WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF BEHAVIOURAL FAMILY THERAPY?
PPC PRIVATE PSYCHOTHERAPY CLINIC -SENIOR ACCREDITED PSYCHOTHERAPIST-Dr.Fawzy Masaoud-LONDON, ENGLAND
Early discoveries in the study of environmental influences on behaviour patterns or responses are attributed, in part,to the well-known works of Pavlov, Thorndike, Clark Hull, and J. B. Watson. At least two experimental paradigms, currently labeled “classical” and “operant” conditioning, were to emerge and survive in the field of human and animal learning. The recent proliferation of operant conditioning (behaviour modification) has been widelyinfluenced by B. F. Skinner and his associates, and has been mostsystematically applied to families by G. R. Patterson (1975). Elements of the classical-conditioning model are more readily apparent in the work of Joseph Wolpe, which is concerned with the deconditioning of maladaptive anxiety neurosis in individuals. Direct application of Wolpe’s approach has not been fully explored in relation to family interaction. Adherents of the approach, which emphasizes vicarious or observational learning, are best represented by the currently popular social psychology of Albert Bandura. While…
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