flooding

• P: Flooding can be an effective treatment for those who stick with it and it is relatively quick.

  E: Choy reported that both SD and flooding were effective but flooding was the more effective of the two at treating phobias. another review concluded that SD and flooding were equally effective in the treatment of phobias.

  L: This shows that flooding is an effective therapy, albeit just one of several options.
• P: Flooding is not for every patient.

  E: It can be a highly traumatic procedure. Patients are obviously made aware of this beforehand but, even then, they may quit during the treatment, which reduces the ultimate effectiveness of the therapy for some people.

  L: Individual differences in responding to flooding therefore limit the effectiveness of the therapy.