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Describe the characteristics of behavioral therapy in rehabilitating lifestyle diseases.

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a) Therapy is goal directed. It specifies clear goals using terminologies that can be easily measured. SMART goals facilitate a clear evaluation of success. Examples of such goals may include:
- Walking three times per week.
- Increasing meal duration by 15 minutes.
- Or reducing the number of self-critical statment5

b) Therapy is process oriented. It entails helping people to decide what to change (i.e., eating, activity, and thinking habits); and how to change. Thus, once a goal is specified, people are then encouraged to identify factors that will facilitate or obstruct goal achievement. If individuals fail to implement the desired behaviour, problem-solving skills are used to identify new methods to overcome barriers. In this perspective, successful behaviour change is based on skills that can be learned and practised. Here Skill power is the key to success—not will power.

c) The therapy advocates small rather than large changes…..the basis of this is the learning principle of successive approximation in which people take incremental steps to achieve more distant goals. Making small changes gives persons with lifestyle diseases successful experiences on which to build rather than attempting drastic changes that they are not able to sustain.

d) The therapy lays emphasis on problem solving …….The change process is facilitated through the use of different problem-solving tools. For example, The behaviour chain is an illustration that visually depicts the chain of events that lead to an unwanted behaviour such as overdrinking, is one of the tools commonly used in treatment. By examining the cues and events that lead up to an overdrinking episode, one can identify areas in which modifications in behavior can be made to break the chain of events and prevent an overdrinking episode from re-occurring. For example, if a patient has identified going out with specific friends as part of the sequence of events that lead to an overdrinking episode, avoiding such outings can be an effective strategy for weakening the association between drinking and outings.

Titany answered the question on July 28, 2021 at 07:17

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