In the Counseling Skills and Interventions domain, counselors are expected to know and apply core cognitive-behavioral strategies, including how to help clients and families learn and practice new behaviors.

Modeling (B) is a technique in which the counselor (or another family member) demonstrates a desired behavior, allowing others to observe and then imitate it. This approach is rooted in social learning principles: people learn new behaviors by watching others perform them and seeing the positive outcomes that follow. In family counseling, modeling can be used to teach communication skills, problem-solving, emotional expression, or conflict-resolution behaviors.

The other options are related but not as directly focused on teaching new behaviors through demonstration:

Intensification (A) is more associated with structural family therapy, where the therapist heightens or intensifies interactions to promote change in family structure.

Reinforcement of incompatible behaviors (C) is a behavior modification method that increases behaviors that cannot occur simultaneously with the unwanted behavior. It shapes behavior but does not inherently rely on demonstration.

Extinction (D) reduces a behavior by removing the reinforcement that maintains it.

While several behavioral techniques can support change, modeling is specifically designed to help family members develop and learn new behaviors by observing them in action.