behavioural therapy

systematic desensitisation

uses reverse conditioning to replace and aims to replace a maladaptive response to a situation or object with a positive response to a situation or object that is incompatible with the undesirable response. 

procedure

• relaxation - the individual is taught how to relax using muscle relaxation techniques 
• hierarchy of anxiety provoking situations - the individual imagines a series of aps starting with those that arouses least anxiety and gradually working…