Flooding eval

• what is strength (cheap)

  -Flooding is cheap compared to all other forms of phobia therapy

  -Although individual flooding sessions are usually longer than SD sessions, fewer sessions are needed overall which equals a lower cost to the patient

  -Thus the cost-effective nature of the therapy means that it has beneficial economic implications
• What is a weakness (traumatic)

  -Flooding can be traumatic for the patient so it raise ethical issues

  -this means patients are mire likely to drop out and as such flooding has a high attrition rate
• What is weakness? (less effective in complex phobias)

  -Flooding is less effective with more complex phobias, such as social phobias 

  -Social phobias involve a variety of different interpersonal interactions dependent on the occasion

  -To be able to navigate the different demands of social events takes some skill and training which flooding cannot provide
• What is another weakness? (risk of spontaneous recovery)

  -when extinguished phobia suddenly returns

  -may be bc flooding sessions are not very long and the therapy doesn't replace the fear with a different response just with no response

  -therefore not effective in the long run
• What is a strength? (Wolpe 1960)

  -treated an adolescent girl with agoraphobia by putting her into the back of a car and driving her around for 4 hrs

  -her fear initially rose to hysterical panic but then receded by the end of the journey

  -therefore there is research support