ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the cognitive strategies augment therapeutic dialogues by providing visual representations or reminders to promote alternate ways of thinking. The behavioral strategies prompt students to change their behaviors through modeling, structured learning opportunities, and skill building. The cognitive continuum is used specifically when students engage in black-and-white thinking. Pie charts are used in cognitive behavioral therapy as a visual aid to help students understand that there are often many people or factors that contribute to an outcome. One of the hallmarks of behavior therapy is collecting baseline data and monitoring progress. The goal of progressive muscle relaxation is to relax the muscles throughout your body, typically by first tensing individual muscle groups and then relaxing them. There are many online scripts and recordings of progressive muscle relaxation and guided imagery. Exposure and response prevention is a behavioral strategy that can be very useful for youth who have problems with anxiety or obsessive-compulsive tendencies.
