Stress Inoculation therapy

• Stress Inoculation Training?


  involves giving people the skills to deal with stressors before it is encountered. it's a form of CBT.
• Conceptualisation?


  build a relationship with the therapist, discuss current strategies to deal with stress, discuss how stressor are able to be overcome
• skills acquisition?


  new skills learnt and rehearsed
• Application and Follow through?

  opportunities are provided to apply new techniques. these become more increasingly stressful
• Strength?


  flexible: Can manage many types of stress and stressors. Provides long term strategies for dealing with stress. lots of research support
• weakness?


  a lot of effort, patients may pretend that therapy has been more successful than it has been.
• study?


  A meta-analysis that included over 1,400 participants concluded that SIT can effectively reduce symptoms of anxiety and stress. Increased confidence.