PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Exposure Therapy, Behaviour Therapy, Classical Conditioning
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Psychotherapy: therapy of the mind, psychological technique, does not cover any biological or medial drug therapy, over 400 different approaches for types of therapies. Some of the things that relate to correspondence: maladaptive behaviors involve "faulty learning" or associations, and the aim of therapy is to help. Imagine the phobia in a relax state: when gets worse, therapist backs off, engage in vivo situation (real life , virtual reality exposure. Implosion therapy: does not make use of relaxation and is not a choice because it can be too overwhelming, anxiety induction therapy. Induce or create as much anxiety as possible: aversive conditioning, replace a pleasant response to a harmful stimulus with an unpleasant response. Stimulus in question is a harmful one: this type of treatment is a little controversial, therapist don"t like to create unpleasantness when they can, but when they do, it"s part of a greater treatment.
