Phobia Treatments

Research Task

• Find a number of phobia treatments which are based upon learning and behavioural theories.
  • Counter Conditioning -> where a client learns a new response to a stimulus that has previously brought out an undesired behaviour
    • 2 CC techniques are exposure therapy and aversive conditioning.

Aversive Conditioning

Exposure therapy

Aversive conditioning uses an unpleasant stimulus to stop an undesired behaviour.

• Therapists apply thus technique to eliminate addictive behaviours like smoking, nail biting and drinking.
• In aversion therapy, clients will typically experience a specific behaviour and at the same time experience something unpleasant (shock/bad taste)
• After repeated associations with the unpleasant stimulus and the behaviour,…