PSYC 4050 Lecture : behaviour modification chapter 9
16 Dec 2011
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exposure therapy-used to treat anxiety, fear, negative emotional reactions by exposing clients under safe conditions to the soliciting items. anxiety is problematic when its intensity is disproportionate to the actual situation and it interferes with normal everyday functioning. most prevalent disorders in us; 24-42% suffer in lifetime; 18% in a yr y variations of exposure therapy: 1. Paradigm of exposure- brief and graduated exposure therapy-exposes the client to threatening events for short time, incrementally. graduated exposure is a prime example of the stepwise progression that characterizes many behaviour therapy procedures. prolonged and intense exposure therapy-exposes client to threatening events for a lengthy period and at a high intensity from the outset: 2. Mode of exposure-can occur in 4 ways that fall on a continuum. one end is in vivo exposure-actual encountering. other is imaginable exposure- vivid imaging the event as one does in a daydream.
