PSY 30312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Systematic Desensitization
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Exposure and response prevention: exposure and response prevention (erp)= an evidence-based treatment for people experiencing ocd recommended by national institute of health and. Works by breaking the link between your obsessions and compulsions. Gradually expose yourself to situations that bring on your obsessions while encouraging you not to carry out their associated compulsions. Done in a graded way: neutralizing= carrying out a compulsion in order to minimize the thoughts associated with an obsession. Start with confronting easier situations and then exposed to more difficult ones: best undertaken by the support of a practitioner who has been trained to work with ocd. Doing exposure and response prevention: the five conditions: condition 1: graded. List the things that you are currently fearful off with the most fearful at the top and the least fearful at the bottom. Things that give at least 50-60% anxiety.
