Systematic Desensitisation
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- Systematic Desensitisation
- 1. Functional Analysis
- Careful questioning to discover the nature of the anxiety and possible triggers.
- 2. Hierarchy of fears
- Client and therapist derive a hierarchy of anxiety provoking situations from least to the most fearful
- 3. Relaxation training
- 4. Gradual exposure
- AIM
- To extinguish an undesirable behaviour such as a phobia
- EVALUATION
- Fail to identify underlying cause of fear
- Causes stress as exposing people to stuff they have a fear of
- They are widely used by the NHS
- 1. Functional Analysis
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