Treatments of Phobias

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  • Created by: Katalan
  • Created on: 22-01-18 23:15

Behavioural 

  • If a phobia can be conditioned, it can be extinguished through learning
  • Systematic desensitisation (Joseph Wolpe)
  • > training in relaxation, eg. mindfulness
  • > hierarchy
  • -- ladder of frightening situations
  • -- counter conditioning causes a response incompatible with fear, eg. relaxation
  • -- imagine fearful situations…

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