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.

• Hypersensitivities

  • Hypersensitivities are maladaptive immune reactions against harmless antigens (allergies) or against self antigens (autoimmunity).
  • Maladaptive immune responses toward harmless foreign substances or self antigens that occur after tissue sensitization are termed hypersensitivities.

• Institutionalized Children

  • The second definition refers to reforming mental hospitals' institutional processes so as to reduce or eliminate reinforcement of dependency, hopelessness, learned helplessness, and other maladaptive behaviors.

• 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.

• Defining Stress

  • ., dissatisfaction, fatigue, tension), maladaptive behaviors (e.g., aggression, substance abuse), and cognitive impairment (e.g., concentration and memory problems).

• 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.

• Theoretical Understandings of Socialization

  • This is referred to as "overimitation" and, while seemingly maladaptive from an evolutionary perspective, it is possible that this is one of the characteristics of humans that facilitates the transmission of culture from generation to generation.

• Behavioral Psychology

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