SD

• What does SD aim to do?

  Extinguish an undesirable behaviour fear by replacing it with a more desirable one, relaxation
• what type of therapy is SD?

  A behavioural therapy
• how does SD work?

  By counter conditioning the patient to no longer feel fear of the phobic stimulus but experience a different response such as relaxation

  Essentially a new association is formed using CC

  We cannot feel fear and reciprocation at the same time

  This is called reciprocal inhibition
• what approach is SD?

  A gradual step by step approach
• what is the process of SD?

  1. client learns relaxation techniques eg deep breathing
  2. client constructs a hierarchy of fear from the least frightening to the most frightening
  3. exposure- client works through hierarchy starting at the bottom, learning to use relaxation techniques in the prescene of the feared stimulus in order to form the new association through CC. this is counter-conditioning .
• how long does SD take to complete?

  around a month
• what is covert desensitisation?


  Imagining scenarios/pictures
• what is in vivo 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
• after receiving SD treatment what is the unconditioned stimulus?

  deep breathing
• wwhat is the Unconditioned response after receiving SD treatment?

  UR= relaxation