Advantages Of Behaviour Approach

Behaviour approach to treating mental health disorders seek to identify and help change potentially self-destructive or unhealthy behaviours. Its focus is the idea that, all behaviours are learned and those unhealthy behaviours can be changed. It primarily focuses of treatment is often on current problems and how to change them (Healthline.com, 2016).

Advantages of behaviour approach include:
The approach deals with basic ideas that are clear to understand. It makes the approach easy to practice and easy to understand. It states that, “if behaviour is reinforced we tend to repeat it”. This, however, helps to produce quick results.

The behavioural approach assumes that nearly all behaviour is learned, this, however, can be used to shape behaviour gradually, to help people develop new behaviours and skills.
It fails to look at underlying causes such as what occurs in the human