Exposure Therapy Basics
What do you think is the philosophy that drives Exposure Therapy?
What is the therapist can create a safe environment where they expose individuals to things they fear/avoid, then they will get more exposed to it and fear will be reduced?
Ths roots of exposure therapy trace back to this psychologist who is known for their work with classical conditioning
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
If the exposure is rapid and intense, it begins with the most feared event and is called…
Flooding
Interoceptive exposure is where the individual brings on physical sensations to simulate how a panic attack might feel. Give an example of one of these physical sensations…
Shortness of breath, heart racing, shaky/trembling feeling
Name one mental health issue that can be treated by Exposure Therapy
What is phobia, panic disorder, social anxiety, OCD, or GAD?
A man named Joseph Wolpe developed this treatment where the individual is exposed to progressively more anxiety-provoking stimuli and taught relaxation techniques. What is the name of this treatment?
What is systematic desensitization?
Latin for “in life”, this is a method of exposure therapy where the client is composed to the actual anxiety-related stimulus
In Vivo
Give an example of what might be a good practice to calm yourself down when being exposed to or having a panic attack:
Deep breathing, distracting yourself, counting by threes, focus on an object
Name a possible strength for exposure therapy
What is?
- evidence shows effectiveness
- person can get rid of fear
- can stop a panic disorder in the long run if person gets desensitized to the cause of it
- can learn techniques to combat stress/panic
This man was known for his little Albert experiment and exposure therapy traces his roots back to him since he exposed Albert to stimuli
Who is John Watson?
Another popular exposure therapy is imaginal, what do you think this would consist of?
Client visualizes or imagines the stimulus that guevs them anxiety
With a panic disorder, if there is a specific thing that brings on panic attacks, such as tests, the person might directly be instructed to take a test. This process of directly facing the anxiety-stimuli is known as…
In vivo
Name a possible weakness of exposure therapy
What is
- cardiovascular risks
- long term process = multiple sessions
- it is hard to directly face one’s fears/work through traumas
- hard to put into practice, one can imagine a situation, but when it actually happens, fear may hit them more
- can increase short term anxieties in long term process
Stanley Rachman used exposure therapy on people with OCD by asking them to conjure up obsessive thoughts and refrain from performing compulsions. This is known as ERP, what does this stand for?
What is Exposure and Response Prevention?
This method consists of new technology being used to have the client ‘virtually’ simulate the situation that could bring on anxiety. This is known as…
VR exposure
With panic disorder, when an individual starts to feel symptoms of a panic attack, they might learn to associate tricks such as counting by threes, taking deep breaths, etc. to ‘counter’ the shortness of breath. This concept proposed by Mary Clover Jones is known as…
What is Counterconditioning?
As mentioned earlier, statistics show that __ to __ percent of people either have no symptoms or mild symptoms of their original disorder after completing exposure therapy
What is 60 to 90 percent?
This woman proposed counterconditioning where she introduced the process of changing an unwanted response to a more desirable response
Who is Mary Clover Jones?
What is the name of the veryyy cute actor who was in charge of the exposure therapy fear landscape in divergent?
THEO JAMES 😁