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Behavioural Therapy

Behavioural Therapy. By Gemma, Shireen , Nadene,Kemi and Juliette. Used for Phobias Animated Minds :: Fish on a Hook. Behavioural Therapy is .

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Behavioural Therapy

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  1. Behavioural Therapy By Gemma, Shireen, Nadene,Kemi and Juliette Used for Phobias Animated Minds :: Fish on a Hook

  2. Behavioural Therapy is Based on systematic desensitisation which is form of a behavioural therapy used to treat phobias and other behaviour problems involving anxiety. A client is gradually exposed to (or imagines) the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished

  3. Joseph wolpe(1950’s) • First developed the systematic desensitisation which enables individuals to battle their phobias by teaching them to relax when surrounded by or troubled by that particular stimuli, which caused them to be anxious in the first place. • An individual fear towards a certain stimulus is not as fearful if they could come across a similar situation again, however the anxiety of the whole situation blocks that recovery. Over a period of time if the stimulus is introduced the individuals phobia can be battled.

  4. How does Systematic desensitisation • Step 1- Patient is taught how to relax their muscles completely. • Step 2- Therapist and patient together construct a desensitisation hierarchy, a series of imagined scenes, each one causing a little more anxiety than the previous one. • Step 3- Patient gradually works his/her way through desensitisation hierarchy visualising each anxiety-evoking event while engaging in the competing relaxation response. • Step 4- One the patient has mastered one step in the hierachy(i.e they can remain relaxed while imagining it), they are ready to move onto the next. • Step 5- Patient eventually masters the feared situation that caused them to seek help in the first place.

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