PSY 30312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Systematic Desensitization, Specific Phobia
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Excessive escape and avoidance behaviors: treatments for anxiety: Behavioral therapies all have to do with some form of exposure include: Exposure: core element of treatment having children face what frightens them while providing ways of coping other than escape and avoidance: gradual exposure: Have the child make a list of feared situations, from least to most anxiety-producing, and the child is asked to rate the distress caused by each situation on a scale from 1 to 10 known as subjective. Units of distress scale (suds) or a fear thermometer. Systematic desensitization: more typical because gradual exposure to something that causes anxiety: consists of three steps: Presenting the anxiety-provoking stimuli sequentially while the child remains relaxed. One of the most effective procedures for treating specific phobias involves participant modeling and reinforced practice models the desired behavior, encourages and guides the child in pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)ing this (cid:271)ehavior, and reinfor(cid:272)es the (cid:272)hild"s efforts. Cognitive behavioral treatment (cbt): most effective treatment.
