maladaptive

Examples of maladaptive in the following topics:

• Coping with Stress

  • All coping strategies have the adaptive goal of reducing or dealing with stress, but some strategies can actually be maladaptive (unhealthy) or merely ineffective.
  • Maladaptive behaviors are those that inhibit a person’s ability to adjust to particular situations.
  • Coping strategies can also be positive (adaptive) or negative (maladaptive).
  • Maladaptive strategies include dissociation, sensitization, numbing out, anxious avoidance of a problem, and escape.
  • Give examples of adaptive and maladaptive strategies for coping with stress

• Cognitive and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies

  • Cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapies address the interplay between dysfunctional emotions, maladaptive behaviors, and biased cognitions.
  • The basic tenet of CBT is that emotions (both adaptive and maladaptive) occur because of our interpretation of an event, not because of the event itself.
  • CBT assumes that changing maladaptive thinking leads to change in affect and behavior.
  • Consequently, helping clients to develop more adaptive strategies to cope with their emotions should help patients improve their maladaptive behaviors.
  • Cognitive biases are maladaptive patterns of judgment, whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion.

• Behavior Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis

  • Behavior therapy is based on the idea that maladaptive behavior is learned, and thus adaptive behavior can also be learned.
  • It applies the principles of operant conditioning, classical conditioning, and observational learning to eliminate inappropriate or maladaptive behaviors and replace them with more adaptive responses.
  • The basic premise is that the individual has learned behaviors that are problematic and maladaptive, and so he or she must learn new behaviors that are adaptive.

• Introduction to Psychotherapy

  • Cognitive therapy seeks to identify maladaptive cognitions (thoughts), appraisals, beliefs, and reactions, with the aim of influencing destructive negative emotions.
  • CBT combines cognitive therapy and behavioral therapy to address maladaptive cognitions as well as dysfunctional behaviors.

• Evaluating the Psychodynamic Approach to Personality

  • The psychodynamic model states that psychological disorders stemmed from maladaptive defenses against unconscious, internal conflicts.

• Behavioral Psychology

  • In his theory, mental disorders represented maladaptive behaviors that were learned and could be unlearned through behavior modification.

• Evaluation of Psychological Therapy Options

  • Behavior therapy focuses on behavior and uses the scientific method as a means of approaching maladaptive behaviors.

• Cluster A: Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders

  • People with STPD usually underestimate the maladaptiveness of their social isolation and perceptual distortions; they tend to consider themselves to be simply eccentric, creative, or nonconformist.

• Attitudes

  • Leon Festinger proposed the cognitive-dissonance theory (1957), which states that a powerful motive to maintain cognitive consistency can give rise to irrational and sometimes maladaptive behavior.

• Classifying Abnormal Behavior: The DSM

  • Symptoms were not specified in detail for specific disorders, and many were seen as reflections of broad underlying conflicts or maladaptive reactions to life problems, rooted in a distinction between neurosis and psychosis.