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C- Classical Therap
Classical Therapies are based on classical conditioning, counter-conditioning
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aversive Counterconditioning: | A particular behavior is made less appealing by pairing it with an unpleasant stimulus. For instance, alcoholics are sometimes given an alcoholic drink together with a drug that induces nausea to weaken the positive feelings they associate with drinking. |
| Assertiveness Training: | Reduces the occurrence of anxiety in interpersonal relationships by replacing maladaptive responses with self-assertive responses. |
| Flooding/Implosive Therapy: | Used to eliminate an anxiety response quickly. |
| Flooding: | The client is suddenly exposed to imagined or real (in vivo) fears for a prolonged period of time (30 to 60 minutes). The outcome desired is extinction of the anxiety response. Modeling, anxiety-management, and cognitive restructuring can assist. |
| Implosive Therapy: | This therapy is similar to Flooding except that it is always conducted in the imagination and uses psychodynamic themes. |
| Classical Therapies: | Passive Change of Behavior by Counterconditioning |
| 1) Systematic Desensitization (Graduated Exposure) | To overcome an anxiety response, a client first learns relaxation strategies, then establishes a hierarchy of fears relating to a specific phobia, and finally uses the relaxation strategies to react towards and overcome fears successively. |