Systematic Desensitisation
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- Created on: 15-04-15 16:40
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- Systematic Desensitisation
- 1. Systematic desensitisation aims to extinguish an undesirable behaviour such as a phobia.
- 2. It takes place over a number of sessions depending on the strength of the phobia and the clients ability to relax.
- 3. Therapists and client jointly agree what the therapeutic goal should be and the therapy is deemed successful once this goal have been reached
- The four stages
- 1. Functional analysis
- Careful questioning to discover the nature of the anxiety and possible triggers
- 2. Hierarchy of fears
- Client and therapist derive hierarchy of anxiety provoking situations from least to the most fearful
- 3. Relaxation Training
- The desensitisation
- Gradual exposure
- Systematic component
- 1. Functional analysis
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