Depression

• ABC model


  Ellis's explanation for how irrational thoughts affect behaviour A= activating event, B+ beliefs, C= consequences
• Counter-conditioning


  Learning a new response to the phobic object/situation e.g. replacing fear with relaxation.
• Fear hierarchy


  A list of situations related to the phobic object/situation arranged in order from least to most frightening
• Flooding (in-vitro)


  Behavioural treatment for a phobia which involvesimaginedexposure to the phobic object/situation without being able to escape
• Flooding (in-vivo)


  Behavioural treatment for a phobia which involvesactualexposure to the phobic object/situation without being able to escape
• Systematic desensitisation


  A behaviourist therapy designed to gradually reduce a phobia through the principle of classical conditioning
• Two-process model


  Behaviourist explanation for phobias which suggests they areacquiredthrough classical conditioning andmaintainedthrough operant conditioning