Flooding AO3

• +Cost effective

  A therapy is cost effective when it’s clinically effective and not expensive. It can work in one session compared to 10 SD sessions. More people can be treated at the same cost with flooding than with SD.
• -Traumatic

  Confronting one's phobic stimulus in an extreme form provokes tremendous anxiety. Schumacher found that participants and therapists rated flooding as significantly more stressful than SD. The traumatic nature of flooding means that attrition (dropout) rates are higher than for SD. Therefore therapists may avoid using this treatment.