Treating Phobias (Flooding & SD) - PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Question 1

what is flooding

Answer 1

a form of behavioural therapy used to treat phobias and other anxiety disorder

Question 2

what happens within flooding

Answer 2

a client us immediately exposed to (or imagines) a form of the threatening situation until the anxiety is extinguished

Question 3

what is counterconditioning

Answer 3

learning a new response to a stimulus

Question 4

how is counterbalancing used in flooding

Answer 4

the patients are taught to relax when they see the feared stimulus instead of feel afraid

Question 5

what is reciprocal inhibition

Answer 5

the idea that you cannot feel afraid and relaxed at the same time - one emotion prevents the other

Question 6

first stage in systematic descenation

Answer 6

agreeing a hierarchy

Question 7

second stage in systematic descenation

Answer 7

teach relaxation techniques

Question 8

third stage in systematic descenation

Answer 8

gradual exposure to feared stimulus hierarchy

Question 9

what occurs in systematic descenation

Answer 9

reciprocal inhibition which causes counterconditioning