1. the anxiety hierarchy

• the client and therapists work together to develop an anxiety hierarchy, where they rank the phobic stimulus from least to most terrifying
• for example, a person with arachnophobia might rank seeing a picture as low on their anxiety hierarchy and actually holding a tarantula at the top of the hierarchy
• in-vivo techniques: the client is actually exposed to a phobic stimulus
• in-vitro techniques: the client imagines exposure to a phobic stimulus