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HAPPY TUESDAY CLASS AND DR. ROBYN Growing up I think we all had that one person we wanted to be. I always wanted to be Superwoman and save the world and Superman was going to be my best friend. As I got older, my dad was my inspiration and all I wanted to do was work hard and change the world by kindness. That’s the impact on the world. In my practicum, I always engage with my supervisor. She is an amazing social worker that not only helps the client but really cares. I learn so much from her. She reminds me a lot of Robyn because she really wants me to learn, I want to be effective. That’s the social worker I want to be. I don’t want to hold a desk from 8-5. I want to make a difference. I want to make a major impact and that’s why I love the office I work at. I observe social workers the everyday striving to help their clients and advocating. Social learning theory is critical in helping social workers address destructive behaviors and habits. The foundation of social learning theory posits that people learn by observing. This new knowledge could include both positive and negative behaviors. It offers opportunities for learning and imprinting new behaviors based on modeling healthier responses. The goal is to alter behavioral patterns to reduce or eliminate unhealthy thoughts and actions ( Miller & Prinz,1990). As a social work intern, I can apply this theory to clients or families with behavioral issues or conflicts. Social learning theory can be used to both learn and unlearn certain behaviors. This theory can be used when working with an abusive parent who has a child with anger problems. The child may resort to physical violence in their own household when they are older. The social learning theory can also be used to explain other deviant behavior. The theory can also be used with a client that has a drug habit. This behavior could be rationalized and attributed to copying friends’ habits, being influenced by others, or simply being surrounded by the “wrong” people The importance of surrounding yourself with people whose qualities you wish to emulate cannot be emphasized enough ( Miller & Prinz,1990). There are many interventions and treatments where social learning theory has been applied. Cognitive therapy is a powerful tool to elicit behavioral change. Cognitive therapies treat behavioral disorders where the original behavior is dysfunctional. Cognitive restructuring aims to achieve schematic change through structured, goal-directed, and collaborative intervention strategies ( Laland, 2004). Cognitive behavioral theory and therapy (CBT) is a highly specialized, task-oriented treatment that changes people’s distortions and irrational thinking through behavior modification. The goal is to help clients learn to identify their imaginary and distorted thoughts and to correct their thinking to the reality of a situation. CBT is often used to help people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, trichotillomania, agoraphobia, misophonia, and other anxiety-driven disorders . The social worker guides clients to identify distortions and triggers (client may avoid an object or person because it is associated with a negative experience). They then assign the patient behavioral tasks to confront their thinking. Because many individuals experience aversions and phobias, a component

of this therapy involves aversion therapy. Clients may be required to touch something they believe will cause them harm or rearrange objects placed a certain way to symbolize safety and control. Having felt an object and not experienced any harm, the client works with the social worker to validate that experience and reality ( Laland, 2004). Skill building targets and builds upon skill deficits. This type of intervention addresses skill gaps and may include social skills training (including life skills training), social cognitive training, cognitive remediation, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with collaborative being the keyword, individuals cannot do this work in isolation. Through therapy, clients identify maladaptive thoughts, and with cognitive restructuring, professionals expose individuals to information that contradicts their biased beliefs ( Heyes, 2012). References Heyes, C. (2012). What's social about social learning? Journal of comparative psychology , 126 (2), 193. Laland, K. N. (2004). Social learning strategies. Animal Learning & Behavior , 32 , 4-14. Miller, G. E., & Prinz, R. J. (1990). Enhancement of social learning family interventions for childhood conduct disorder. Psychological Bulletin , 108 (2), 291.

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