Behavioural techniques used are:

• Activity logs, which permit retrospective identification and prospective planning of changes
• Scheduling activities, to enhance personal efficacy in targeted areas
• Behavioural rehearsal, modelling and assertiveness training for skill development
• Relaxation training and behavioural redirection techniques
• In vivo exposure
• Graded task assignment, so that the patient can experience changes as an incremental step-by-step process
• Behavioural change analysis to assist the patient braining down problem sequences and developing ideas for response alternatives at each stage
• Time and routine management
• Stimulus control, or purposeful alteration of cues to prompt desired responses or behaviours, and create conditions that will discourage maladaptive behaviours
• Contingency management, to link rewards or positive reinforcement with desired efforts, and decrease the benefits associated with maladaptive responses.