PSYC 4440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Impulsivity, Emotional Dysregulation, Social Learning Theory
10 Jun 2015
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Typically applied when a patient has the capacity to respond adequately to a particular situation (or class of situations), yet reacts with anxiety, fear, or avoidance. Based on reciprocal inhibition - the apparently simple principle that one cannot be relaxed and anxious simultaneously. Begins with collecting a history of the patients specific predicting conditions and about developmental factors want to pin point patients anxiety cause. Next the problem is explained the client elaborately to include the manner in which the patient acquired and maintains the anxiety, following this is a rationale for why systematic desensitization is explained selling them on it. Next two stages are relaxation training (about 6 sessions) and establishing a anxiety hierarchy. Establishing an anxiety hierarchy recurrent themes in the patient"s difficulties and anxieties are isolated and then ordered in terms of their power to induce anxiety.
