BEHP1135: Emotions and Emotional Behavior is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Emotions and Emotional Behavior, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: ABA Technologies / Florida Tech
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Join Free →Emotions and emotional behaviors appear to be elusive topics. When addressed, they are often categorized as Pavlovian or respondent reactions, the result of physiological changes, as a by-product of social labeling, a by-product of operant behavior or as private stimuli that are the result of derived relations of various types. An alternative approach treats private emotions, including anxiety, as indicators or descriptors—nonspoken tacts—of consequential contingencies. Emotions are treated in a broader context as either basic or social, with the defining differences being the types of contingencies described. Once made public, however, emotions may become "emotional behavior," maintained by their consequences. Patients are taught to be more sensitive to their emotions and that they are the normal outcomes of consequential contingencies; they are not maladaptive.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB | 3 | General |
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