Behavioural Activation

Question 1

________ is when patients avoid situations because of fear or discomfort

Answer 1

Avoidance

Question 2

When patients become anxious, they avoid activities that they feel they can’t ____ with

Answer 2

cope

Question 3

People avoid situations for two reasons:
1 That something ___ will happen
2 That is something bad actually happened, they would not _____

Answer 3

Bad; cope

Question 4

Avoidance makes people feel good in the short term, but worse in the long term, as their world shr_____

Answer 4

shrinks

Question 5

Graded _______ involves helping patients to gradually confront situations, activities, and feared stimuli

Answer 5

exposure

Question 6

Graded exposure builds con_______ in peoples ability to cope in situations that they had been avoiding

Answer 6

confidence

Question 7

Graded Exposure:

“If you enter a situation that triggers anxiety symptoms and you stay there long enough, your anxiety will go (down/up)

Answer 7

down

Question 8

___________: The process in graded exposure to which every time your fight/flight response is triggered by an external situation, your anxiety goes down.

Answer 8

Habitituation