Behavioural approach treatments
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- Created on: 18-04-14 12:03
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- Behavioural approach therapies
- Systematic desenitisation
- Is where the therapist attempts to replace the fear response by an alternative and harmless response
- For phobias the therapist asks them to think of the most fearful part of their phobia and the least fearful
- The therapist then trains them in relaxation which is the alternative harmless response and the aim of the procedure is replace the fear response with relaxation
- Therapist asks client to visualise the least feared situation
- Once client is comfortable then they have to visualise next situation in hierarchy, is then associated with the alternative response
- Therapist asks client to visualise the least feared situation
- The therapist then trains them in relaxation which is the alternative harmless response and the aim of the procedure is replace the fear response with relaxation
- Flooding
- Flooding involves inescapable exposure to the feared object or situation that carries on until the fear is lost
- if flooding ends too soon, when anxiety levels are too high it may have opposite it may have opposite affect and the phobia will be reinforced rather than removed
- Flooding involves inescapable exposure to the feared object or situation that carries on until the fear is lost
- Aversion therapy
- aims to associate undesirable behaviour with an unpleasant stiumuluss
- used in 1950s to cure homosexuality by pairing electric shocks with pictures of naked men
- Now aversion therapy is used for addictiveness
- aims to associate undesirable behaviour with an unpleasant stiumuluss
- Systematic desenitisation
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