Psychological therapies
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- Psychological Therapies
- Systematic de-sensitisation (SD)
- This gradually introduced an individual to an object that makes the person anxious
- They are fearful of this item that has been fears for a long period of time
- When people feel anxiety in a certain situation then they begin to avoid it
- SD works by introducing them back to the object gradually
- This was first developed by Wolpe (1950) this shows that fear can be dispelled
- Use of SD
- In the early days patients would learn to confront their fear
- In more recent years the therapist would ask the patient to imagine the situation
- When individuals are able to mentally able to cope then they can start to physically cope with it
- Such exposure treatments can often be completed in a single session (Ollendick et al 2009)
- Behaviour therapists will often use this procedure when treating phobias, shyness and related problems
- Evaluation
- Appropriateness
- They are appropriate for helping with anxiety related disorders
- Behavioural therapies are generally quick and require less effort
- Patients also play a bigger part in SD
- This form of treatment can also be self administered by using a computer stimulus
- Reduce effectiveness for some phobias
- Ohman et al (1975) suggested that SD may not be effective in treating anxity
- It may be hard to treat phobias that have been caused by a result of a personal experience
- The reason for the difference is because of ancient fears that helped our ancestors survive
- Ancient fears are therefore harder to shift even modern humans
- Appropriateness
- Systematic de-sensitisation (SD)
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