BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SELECT TERMS

Activity Scheduling: scheduling satisfying or enriching activities outside of therapy

Case Management: assessment, planning, facilitation and advocacy of needs through communication with available resources

Catharsis: bring about emotional release with intent to develop mastery and control

Cognitive Techniques to Facilitate Coping: techniques to alter the interpretation of events through examination of reported thoughts

Contingency Management: rewards and possibly punishments provided in response to adherence or non-adherence to target behaviors

Emotional Processing: activate emotional memories and provide new information

Eye Movement or Tapping: accessing/resolving troubling experiences while brain is stimulated bilaterally using visual or tactile stimulus

Exposure: involve direct or imagined exposure to target stimulus either gradually or suddenly with possible intensification by therapist

Free Association: talk spontaneously without direction / inhibition to probe unconscious

Functional Analysis: arrangement of antecedents and consequences based on functional understanding of behavior

Guided Imagery: visualization techniques for either imagined rehearsal or relaxation purposes

Hypnosis: induction of a trance-like mental state to increase susceptibility to suggestion

Insight Building: activity designed to help increase self-understanding

Interpretation: reflective discussion/listening exercises to yield therapeutic interpretation

Milieu Therapy: using the residential environment in therapy, includes token/point systems

Mindfulness: exercises to increase present-focused, nonjudgmental, non-evaluative observation

Motivational Interviewing: increase readiness to participate in an activity including cost-benefit analysis and persuasion

Natural and Logical Consequences: allowing negative consequences of problem behavior to occur, making consequences appropriate to behavior

Overcorrection: have someone engage in repetitive behavior to teach response

Physical Restraint: restricting freedom of movement or normal physical activity

Redirection: direct to appropriate behavior

Response Cost: point or token system where negative behaviors result in loss of points or tokens

Response Prevention: Explicit prevention of a maladaptive habitual behavior

Stimulus or Antecedent Control: identifying triggers to problem behavior and altering or eliminating them to increase behavior control

Tangible Rewards: training individuals in patient’s environment in administration of tangible reinforcers to promote desired behaviors

Thought Field Therapy : tapping body points to balance flow of energy in the body