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  2. Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment - Wikipedia

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    Adult Self-Report (ASR) – To be completed by the adult. This assesses the adult's adaptive functioning, strengths, and problems. Adult Behavior Checklist (ABCL) – To be completed by a known individual of the adult, meant to reflect answers provided on the ASR. Brief Problem Monitor for Ages 18-59 (BPM/18-59) Older adult assessments:

  3. Mode deactivation therapy - Wikipedia

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    When these are distressing and deprive a person of psychological needs, the coping mechanism may be viewed as maladaptive compared with normal circumstances. The personality structures are referred to as cognitive schemas, which—in combinations—inform a person how to behave in a certain situation.

  4. Adaptive behavior - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, maladaptive behavior is a type of behavior that is often used to reduce one's anxiety, but the result is dysfunctional and non-productive coping. For example, avoiding situations because you have unrealistic fears may initially reduce your anxiety, but it is non-productive in alleviating the actual problem in the long term.

  5. Cognitive restructuring - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive restructuring (CR) is a psychotherapeutic process of learning to identify and dispute irrational or maladaptive thoughts known as cognitive distortions, [1] such as all-or-nothing thinking (splitting), magical thinking, overgeneralization, magnification, [1] and emotional reasoning, which are commonly associated with many mental health disorders. [2]

  6. Autism therapies - Wikipedia

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    Intensive, sustained special education programs and behavior therapy early in life can help children with ASD acquire self-care, social, and job skills, [5] and often can improve functioning, and decrease severity of the signs and observed behaviors thought of as maladaptive; [8] Available approaches include applied behavior analysis (ABA ...

  7. Cognitive behavioral therapy - Wikipedia

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    CBT is based on the belief that thought distortions and maladaptive behaviors play a role in the development and maintenance of many psychological disorders and that symptoms and associated distress can be reduced by teaching new information-processing skills and coping mechanisms. [3] [1] [14] [15]

  8. Avoidant personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD), or anxious personality disorder, is a cluster C personality disorder characterized by excessive social anxiety and inhibition, fear of intimacy (despite an intense desire for it), severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g., self-imposed social isolation) as a maladaptive coping method. [1]

  9. Emotional detachment - Wikipedia

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    For example, people with ED often have experienced childhood abuse. Eating disorders on their own are a maladaptive coping mechanism and to cope with the effects of an eating disorder, people may turn to emotional detachment. [17] Bereavement or losing a loved one can also be causes of emotional detachment. [17]