Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes -Aversion Therapy, Systematic Desensitization, Exposure Hierarchy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Point out erroris oif thinking and logic that underlie disturbance. In practice it is to allow client to come to realize that it is their thoughts which create the maladaptive emotional reaction and not the events themselves. Tracing the line from event to thought to emotion- similar to ellis but less confrontational. Systematic desensitization (joeph wolpe: train the client in voluntary muscle relaxation, client constructs a stimulus hierarchy, client practices relaxation while moving up the hierarchy. Taking each fear and reducing it to where the phobia of snakes is lowered: problem: transfer to real life situations from therapy sessions is less successful than wolpe claimed, solution: requires some testing in real world situations. Electrically shock pedophiles to make them feel nauseas when they see children, in cases where the pedophiles come back to receive this treatment it works successfully. In this view of most psychologists, punishment is the least preferred way to control behaviour.