PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 79: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Behaviour Therapy, Panic Disorder
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Most direct approach is through operant conditioning: operant conditioning: using rewards/punishments, reinforcement may be used to teach new skills to ppl. Schizophrenic patients: as patient practices different techniques, appropriate behaviors are shaped to allow client to manage more complex social situations, exposure therapy: Most direct approach is through classical conditioning: classical conditioning: ppl are confronted w/ feared stimulus w/ goal of decreasing negative emotional responses to it, exposure treatment can be carried out in: Through imagination: used in treatment of: Flooding: client is exposed to source of fear all at once: assumption is that fear will subside as client habituates to situation while receiving emotional support from therapist during stressful experience, advantage(s): Patient may relapse after a short period of time. Behavioral therapy works best when ppl directly experience feared object: virtual reality therapy: therapist uses computer-generated, 3-d, lifelike images of feared stimulus in a systematic desensitization program.
