![]() Of course, we can fall into the self-serving bias if we are not careful. Self-Praise – there is nothing wrong with patting yourself on the back when it is justified. Other Fear and Anxiety Procedures – once the fear is overcome, these procedures will not be needed but having been trained in how to use them will be useful should the fear return or a new one emerges. We all suffer depression, anxiety, fear, doubt ourselves, and eventually deal with loss, and so having additional skills to deal with these demands can help reduce stress. In fact, in shaping, once the next step is taken the previous ones cease to be reinforced and this includes making the final behavior.Ĭognitive Behavior Modification – in general, these strategies may be useful in our everyday life. Once he/she is doing so, reinforcing steps along the way are not needed. The same is true of training your cat to use the litter pan. Shaping – once you are making the desired behavior, the shaping steps to get there are not needed. Relaxation techniques – we all encounter stress and anxiety on a regular basis and so muscle relaxation, deep breathing, etc. Once you know what you are doing, these prompts stop. Consider that when you start a new job, your trainer will use a lot of verbal, gestural, and modeling prompts. Prompts – these do not regularly occur in life and so will be faded. Social support – friends and family regularly help us to do the right thing and outside of behavior modification, are critical buffers against stress. Generalization/Programming – you will want to make sure your behavior occurs in all relevant situations and environments, but once it does, it will not be needed. Self-Instructions – reminding yourself what to do never hurts and people typically do this. Once you are making it, these strategies are not needed. Goal Setting – goals are a regular part of life, though you will likely make many others not related to changing an unwanted behavior or making a new, desirable oneĪntecedent Manipulations – you could make a case to keep a few, but in general you manipulated the antecedents to engage in your desired behavior. Table 14.1 Strategies to Keep and Strategies to Fade during Maintenance Strategies to Keep So which ones do we phase out and which do we keep? Table 14.1 gives you an idea of how to go about deciding this. Some strategies you will want to keep in place. These cannot remain in effect for the duration of our life, so we must phase them out…well, most of them. Recall that the treatment phase is when we manipulate variables, or in this case use the various antecedent, behavior, and consequence focused strategies we have settled on. Once this occurs, we need to transition from treatment phase to maintenance phase. At this point, the target behavior is now occurring habitually or without conscious effort, or due to use of the many strategies we selected. ![]() When planning to change our behavior we cannot lose sight of the fact that eventually, we will obtain our final goal. Maintenance Phase and Strategies to Phase or Fade
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