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Behavioral EDPs

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A great many of the affect avoidance strategies that eventually become dysfunctional enter consciousness as potential actions. This gives the person the choice of acting on them or not. Some avoidance strategies are largely automatic but have the potential to come under voluntary control. This chapter describes seven groups of avoidance behaviors. Among these are fully conscious avoidance, nonverbal schemas, reenactments, acting out, hidden agendas, guilty quests, and developmental arrest. Suggestions are made for treatment with each group of EDPs along with helpful resources.

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    Jeffery Smith

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Smith, J. (2017). Behavioral EDPs. In: Psychotherapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49460-9_14

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