Appropriatenesss

• P- Although flooding is considered a cost-effective solution, it can be highly traumatic for patients since it purposefully elicits a high level of anxiety.
• E- Wolpe (1969) recalled a case with a patient becoming so intensely anxious that she required hospitalisation. Although it is not unethical as patients provide fully informed consent, many do not complete their treatment because the experience is too stressful.
• E- Therefore, initiating flooding treatment is sometimes a waste of time and money if patients do not engage in or complete the full course of their treatment.
• L- This is a weakness to this therapy because the dropout rate may mean the therapists may avoid using flooding as a treatment to cure phobias which reduces its overall application to helping individuals which is its main goal.