A03

• effectiveness of systematic desensitisation


  research has found that SD is successful for a range of phobias
• effectiveness of systematic desensitisation


  McGrath et al 1990 found that that 75% of patients with phobias respond to SD
• effectiveness of systematic desensitisation

  in vivo techniques more successful than in vitro (choy et al 2007)
• effectiveness of systematic desensitisation


  a number of different exposure techniques are involved in in vivo and in vitro and also modelling, where patient watches someone else who ic coping well with feared stimulus (comer 2002)
• effectiveness of systematic desensitisation

  demonstrates that sd is effective but also the value of using a range of different exposure techniques
• effectiveness of flooding


  flooding can be effective for those who stick with it
• effectiveness of flooding


  Craske et al (2008) concluded that flooding and sd were equally effective in treating phobias, however it can be highly traumatic and patients may quit
• effectiveness of flooding


  flooding can be useful as long as patients know beforehand of distress they are likely to experience
• systematic desensitisation may be more ethical

  it exposes the individual to the feared stimulus gradually, creating less distress
• flooding might not always work

  it can sometimes strengthen the patients association between the conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus causing the patient to exhibit an even stronger conditioned fear response
• flooding unethical


  flooding can be unethical to use on some patients because it is too traumatic, such as children