Treatment

• what are the 2 main treatments for phobias?

  • Exposure treatments
  • cognitive
• what are exposure treatments based on?

  classical conditioning
• what are the 2 types of exposure treatments?

  systematic desensitisation

  flooding
• what is the cognitive treatment?

  cognitive behavioural therapy
• what are the types of exposure treatments?

  SD

  Flooding
• what are exposure treatments based on?

  classical conditioning
• what is the cognitive treatment?

  CBT
• What is cbt?

  cognitive behaviour therapy
• what is covert desensitisation?

  Imagining scenarios/pictures
• what is invivo desensitisation?

  actual contact with stimulus
• what is the definition of SD?

  A behavioural therapy for treating anxiety disorders in which the sufferer learns relaxation techniques and then faces a progressive hierarchy of exposure to the objects and situations that cause anxiety