| Abstract: | If one accepts the view that psychotherapy is a learning process, then greater efforts should be made to develop treatment methods derived from our knowledge of learning and motivation. The learning mechanisms of counterconditioning, extinction, discrimination, reward, punishment, and social imitation are discussed as well as the pertinent research in which these principles were applied to psychotherapy. Some of the more prevalent criticisms of the learning approach to psychotherapy are answered. From Psyc Abstracts 36:02:2IF43B. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
