Question

Clinical psychologists are often trained to work with people with severe behavioral problems, and often do so using a ____ approach in which modifying behavior is the primary goal.

Answer 1

Answer: CHANGE ORIENTED

Explanation: A change oriented approach in Psychology involves using new, different and better way to work with people to change part of their behaviour.

A clinical psychologist works towards better solutions and may not know what the outcome of the new method is initially.

Answer 2

behavioral approach sometime also called cognitive behavioral

Step-by-step explanation:

Psychologists study mechanisms to reinforce a desirable behaviors and seek to eliminate unwanted one.

The idea behind the approach is that we learn from the environment, and we are able to adapd then to learn and change learning patterns.

Classical conditioning and operant conditioning will help us to better adapt to the desired goal of behavior.

If everytime we get good grades or do something we rewards ourselves by eatinig candy or chocolate then we are applying this.

On the other hand if something is bothering , we can work on ways to prevent it. We refer to this as negative reinforcement.

Unwanted Thoughts will also be considered but, action is more important as it is the basis for learning strategies.

Behavior therapy often focuses on improving learning and developing skills to tackle situations at school, at work, and with very specific issues in order to modify course of action.