CLP-4143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Specific Phobia, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Exposure Therapy
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Clp 4143 lecture 12: anxiety treatments, specific phobias, and gad. Cognitive- behavioral therapy: cognitive reconstructing then exposure. Interoceptive exposure: a form of therapy. exercise to act on anxiety sensitivity by exposing internal sensations. Relaxation exercise: happens during the presence of the threat so they learn how to deal with the presence of the threat. Combining drugs with exposure makes the treatment less effective. People began relying on the drugs or using it as safety behavior. Criteria: excessive or unreasonable fear cued by the specific object or situation, fear is excessive, avoidance or intense anxiety and distress in the situation. Normal fear: typically decrease with age and are adaptive fears expressed in a maladaptive way. 4 categories of specific phobia: animal type, natural environment, situational type. Agoraphobia: fear of being in places where it would be difficult or impossible to escape: blood-injection-injury (bii-type): seeing blood or an injury or receiving an injection.
