Systematic desensitisation (behavioural approach)

• Therapy uses classical and operant condition to change dysfunctional disorders. Aims to use reverse conditiong to replace a dysfunctional fear to a certain factor, by drawing out a healthier response.

Procedure

• Relaxation
  -Begins with teaching patient how to use muscle relaxation.
• Organized series of anxiety-causing situations
  -Patient creats numbered list of situations that cause anxiety. Starting with the situation with least anxiety to the most.  
• Reciprocal inhibition
  -Relaxation is linked to…