Treatments from the Behavioural Approach
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- Created on: 24-03-15 16:05
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- Treatments from the Behavioural Approach
- Systematic Desensitisation
- Uses reverse conditioning & aims to replace a maladaptive response to a situation by eliciting healthier responses
- Procedure: 1) teaches to relax 2) hierarchy of anxiety provoking situations 3) reciprocal inhibition (tolerance builds to hierarchy) 4) treatment complete
- In vivo (real life situation) In vitro (imagined)
- Good to treat phobias
- Not suitable to treat schizophrenia
- EVALUATION
- Strengths: 1) Reseach support (evidence) 2) Alternatives to imagination
- Weaknesses:1) Limitations with individuals ability to imagine 2) Quicker alternatives- could be traumatic (flooding and implosion therapy) 3) Symptom substitution
- Aversion Therapy
- Behavioural treatment based upon classical conditioning, Aims to rid an individual of an undesirable habit by paining habit with unpleasant (averse) consequence
- Procedure: 1) person given alcoholic drink laced with an emetic (nausea inducing substance) 2) after few paintings of alcohol and nausea, person will want to avoid
- Good to treat addictions
- Bad to treat everything else
- Evidence
- Strengths: 1) research evidence 2) combined therapies (positive techniques to teach new behaviours
- Weaknesses:ethical issues- dehumizing? 2) may be short lived
- Systematic Desensitisation
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