Therapy

Question 1

SYSTEMATIC DESENSITISATION

Answer 1

• change fear stimulus response to relaxation
• in vivo - face directly
• in vitro - imagine
  1) relaxating techniques
  2) desensitisation hierarchy (least to most feared)
  3) work through hierarchy at own pace
  4) after mastered step move onto next
  5) fear mastered

Question 2

SYSTEMATIC DESENSITISATION: EVALUATION

Answer 2

✅ successful for learned phobias - capafons = fear of flying showed less fear when in flight simulator
❌not effective for generalised or ancient fears
❌ symptom substitution = cause remains and resurface in another form

Question 3

SYSTEMATIC DESENSITISATION: ETHICS

Answer 3

✅better than flooding as conducted at own pace
✅ clients are in healthy state and can give full informed consent