behaviourist approach to treating phobias

Question 1

2 treatments of phobias

Answer 1

systematic desensitisation
flooding

Question 2

flooding

Answer 2

behavioural therapy in which a person is exposed to an extreme form of phobic stimulus in order to reduce anxiety triggered by the stimulus

Question 3

systematic desensitisation

Answer 3

behavioural therapy used to reduce the effects of an unwanted response - teaching a person to relax in the situations that give anxiety

Question 4

3 processes of systematic desnsitisation

Answer 4

anxiety hierarchy
relaxation
exposure

Question 5

anxiety hierarchy

Answer 5

patient and therapist make a hierarchy of things they find most frightening

Question 6

relaxation

Answer 6

therapist gets patient to deeply relax - cannot be afraid and relaxed at the same time reciprocal inhabitation - methods such as meditation or vallium

Question 7

exposure

Answer 7

client will be exposed to the phobic stimulus in a relaxed state - moving up the hierarchy
treatment is successful when patient can endure things at the top of hierarchy

Question 8

how does flooding work

Answer 8

the conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus until it no longer triggers a response