PSYC 4030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tachycardia, Systematic Desensitization, Reciprocal Inhibition
12 Apr 2016
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Why is anxiety hierarchy is not necessarily dveloped around a coping desen speciic fear in. Bc bodily sensations are the target of desen procedure. Bc we can use this method for general fears, not just phobias. What is coping desensitization? a variation of systematic desensitization. A client is trained to be attuned to bodily felt sensations of anxiety. The body sensations cue the client to engage in a competing response a coping response such as relaxation. This coping response is learned in therapy session, as the therapist instructs the client to stay with instead of terminating the scene, while using relaxation response as well as positive self instructing i am handling this . Physical sensaions of panic are induced while clinet visualizes events that evoke panic (rapid heart rate and hypervenilaing easy to induce) Mechanism of change is exposure in non-threaing environment clients also do disphragmaic breathing to stop hypervenilaion.
