The Distinct Characteristic of Behavior Therapy

Regarding behavioral transformation and healing model, therapy plays a significant role. In a behaviorists’ perspective, the aim of therapy is not to make clients feel better or be better modified. That is because behaviorists believe that “therapy must try to modify the shape or order of behaviors―that is, prevent undesirable behaviors from recurring and have desirable behaviors occur more often” (Frager & Fadiman, 2002, p. 262).

In other words, behavioral therapists tend to focus on actual behaviors rather than inner states or trauma of clients. Thus, the distinct characteristic of behavior therapy is not to attempt to adjust emotional attitudes in clients but to pinpoint clients’ actual behaviors in order to modify them.     
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Personality and Personal Growth (6th Edition)