Behavior Analytic Approaches to Counseling and Therapy: Session 262 with Pat Friman

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Pat Friman returns to discuss the Behavior Analytic approaches he uses with patients. In this episode, we harken way back to Session 16, and review some of what we know about Anxiety and Depression, which are the most common forms of mental health distress.

Pat talks about how he conceptualizes these challenges, what he does in the first session with patients, his general approach to treatment, the role of medications, his view on when to begin or cease therapy, important therapist characteristics like kindness, compassion, and acceptance, and lots more!

Here are links to the references we spoke about:

Pat's earlier appearances on the BOP.
Pat's CEU previous CEU events: Session 16 (ethics) and Session 42.
Friman, Hayes, and Wilson (1998). Why Behavior Analysts Should Study Emotion: The example of Anxiety.
Hayes and Smith (2005). Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life (disclosure: Amazon Associate link).
Haidt (2024). The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (disclosure: Amazon Associate link).
Session 227: Decreasing Social Media Use with Contingency Management, Inside JABA 15.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, thanks for joining me in session 262 of the Behavioral Observations podcast.
0:05.8	Dr. Pat Freiman returns to discuss the behavior analytic approaches he uses with patients in the
0:11.2	therapeutic setting. In this episode, we hearken way back to session 16 and review some of what we
0:17.0	know about anxiety and depression, which are the most common forms of mental health
0:22.5	distress. In this episode, Pat talks about how he conceptualizes these challenges, what he does
0:29.2	in the first session with patients, his general approach to treatment, the role of medications,
0:35.8	his view on when to begin or cease therapy, the role of extinction, behavioral pediatrics, important therapist characteristics like kindness, compassion, and acceptance, and lots, lots more.
0:49.2	I could have asked Pat a lot more follow-up questions and he had to go.
0:53.6	So if this is something that you want to hear more about, go to the show notes for this episode over at behavioralo observations.com and leave a comment.
1:03.4	Also, if you'd like to get a CEU for this episode or for over 50 other episodes, go to behavioralobservations.com forward slash get CEOs to learn more.
1:14.8	And while we're at it, I want to let you know that we're brought to you by the behavioral
1:18.4	toolbox.com, where Anika Costa and Dr. Polly Gavoni and I have put together two online
1:24.4	courses for school-based practitioners. If you haven't been to the website
1:28.3	in a bit, I'd encourage you to go visit it again because we recently published our latest course
1:33.0	When Not to FBA, five quick strategies for improving behavior in the classroom. As with our first
1:39.0	course, Ready Set Consult, we've gotten great feedback on When Not to FBA. So again, if you work in public schools,
1:45.5	please consider checking it out. Lastly, this episode is brought to you by Behavior University,
1:50.7	where their mission is to provide university quality instruction for the busy behavior
1:55.1	analyst. Check out their webinars, on-demand events, RBT trainings, and supervisors courses
2:00.8	over at behavioruniversity.com.
2:03.5	And don't forget to use the promo code
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