PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sodium Lactate, Extraversion And Introversion, Agoraphobia
19 Dec 2017
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Behavioral treatments for phobias: flooding (implosive therapy) Ex: treatment for patients with rat phobia. Final stage: taking them out and having them do their worst fear. To get complete each stage, there has to be a feeling of relaxation in the patient to move on. What sdt has in advantage of implosive therapy is that it does not require the strong feeling of anxiety to get over the fear: modelling: Involve avoidance / escape behaviors: seen in panic disorder and phobias, a lot of individuals who exhibit phobic behavior show this. Involves ritualistic and repetitive behaviors: ex: compulsions in ocd, cognitive symptoms: Intrusive thoughts: obsessions in ocd, recollections in ptsd. Defense mechanisms: brain structure / function / chemistry, genetic bases. 2 most common behavioral treatments are implosive therapy / sdt: says that all fear is conditioned thus, there is the classical condition of fear, panic disorder: unconscious internal stimuli precedes the anxiety / panic.
