"Cleaning-up cognition" in triple-response fear assessment through individualized functional behavior analysis.
Improvements in behavioral assessment spurred by the triple-response concept have been overshadowed by a preoccupation with content of assessment and a lack of regard for the context of assessment. The aims of this article are to (a) clarify the imprecise use of the verbal-subjective-cognitive mode and to reinterpret cognitive events based on evidence and methods derived from clinical behavior analysis, (b) discuss the limitations of the triple-response assessment framework, and (c) suggest an alternative functional idiographic approach to assessment and treatment that may direct attention toward behavior relations understood functionally within the context of environmental contingencies; an approach that once was the hallmark of behavior therapy and the basis for therapeutic interventions.
Forsyth
J P
JP
Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, Morgantown 26506-6040, USA.
Eifert
G H
GH
D000379:Agoraphobia / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011340:Problem Solving; D011379:Prognosis; D012931:Social Environment