Behavioural Strategies & Applications

Question 1

What principles are behavioural approaches based on?

Answer 1

Classical and Operant condition

Question 2

What are the three types of desensitisation?

Answer 2

Imaginal: graduated (systematic), Exposure to most feared situation (implosion)
In-Vivo: Graduated, most feared sit (flooding)
Eye-movement desensitisation (EMDR): exposure to threatening stimuli and rapid e.m

Question 3

What is counterconditioning?

Answer 3

Therapeutic procedure used in behaviour therapy. Client made to confront feared stimulus or situation AKA exposure therapy.

Question 4

What are the basic characteristics of systematic desensitisation?

Answer 4

Client exposed to weak, anxiety-evoking stimulus for few seconds repeatedly. Stimulus progressively loses anxiety. Then stronger stimuli introduced.

Question 5

How do you prepare a hierarchy of stimuli for systematic desensitisation?

Answer 5

Wolpe. Items graduated from low to high ratings of subjective units of disturbance (SUDS). 10-20 items (equally spaced). Items are concrete, specific, real.

Question 6

How do you finish up a session of imaginal desensitisation and where do you start from in the next?

Answer 6

Sessions terminate after 15-30min of desensitisation. Terminates with neutral item or one that doesn’t evoke anxiety. New session begins with last item that they coped with.

Question 7

What is Reciprocal Inhibition Hypothesis?

Answer 7

Spinoza. Principle states it’s not possible to feel anxious and relaxed at the same time as they are incompatible emotional states.

Question 8

What is the extinction hypothesis?

Answer 8

Progressives reduction in strength of response when it is repeated elicited by a stimulus without reinforcement.

Question 9

When shouldn’t you use desensitisation (Contraindications)?

Answer 9

Psychotic conditions, severe personality disorders, conditions when anxiety/anger aren’t the predominant problems.