PSY-P 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Family Therapy, Citalopram, Epileptic Seizure
13 Feb 2017
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Ex: shock collars to keep dogs from running away: flooding- sometimes referred to as exposure therapy. Ex: locking someone who is afraid of spiders in a room full of spiders: aversion therapy for alcoholism- the pairing of alcohol with chemically-induced nausea or emesis, systematic desensitization, in vivo desensitization. Systematic desensitization- gradually approaching feared stimulus while maintaining relaxation. Phobic responses are reduced by pairing relaxation with mental images or real-life situations that the person finds progressively more fear-provoking; based on the principle of counter-conditioning. Patient learns new conditioned response (relaxation) that is incompatible with old conditioned response (fear and anxiety: patient learns progressive relaxation, patient constructs anxiety hierarchy, process of desensitization. In vivo-desensitization- a variation of systematic desensitization in which the anxiety-arousing situations to which the person is exposed are real, rather than imagined. The client is actually exposed to the phobic stimulus.
