Discussion of Behavior Modification

Behavior modification is a treatment approach that is based on learning principles that help to replace undesirable or negative behaviors with more desirable or positive ones. Behavior modification can be used to treat a variety of problems among children and adults.  This treatment approach can treat problems like attention deficit disorder, phobias, child disobedience, obsessive compulsive disorder, problems with sleeping and so on. In today’s society, child disobedience is considered one of the most common problems, which makes a negative effect on child-parent relationships, learning, behaviors, and interactions with the environment; children often behave inappropriately in order to gain attention from their parents and refuse to obey showing their independence, identity, and unwillingness to follow rules and norms. Using behavior modification therapy it is possible to change undesired behavior and replace it with positive one. For example, parents can discourage child’s disobedience and unwanted behaviors through punishment. For a child, punishment is associated with aversive, unpleasant stimulus in reaction to his behavior. For example, in case of child’s disobedience parents can forbid to watch TV or restrict access to video game playing. The removal of reinforcement altogether leads to extinction, which in its turn “eliminates the incentive for unwanted behavior by withholding the expected response” (Woollard, 2010). An isolation of a child from a group is one of the most common techniques that parents and educations use to cope with child’s disobedience and wrong behaviors (this methodology removes the expected reward of attention). But many researchers consider that “punishment is less of an influence upon behavior than reward and that reward alone will be just as effective” (Woollard, 2010). Thus, behavior modification therapy can effectively treat child’s disobedience and other similar problems. Through ignoring inappropriate behaviors and increase child’s awareness that negative behaviors lead to punishment and restrictions, parents can change child’s misbehaving and replace it with right behaviors and obedience.

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Woollard, J. (2010). Psychology for the Classroom: Behaviorism. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

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