systematic desensitisation Flashcards

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who and when was this developed?

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Wolpe 1958

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what else is this sometimes known as?

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  • graduated exposure therapy
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what is treatment based on ?

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the principles of classical conditioning ( how a stimulus and involuntary response are associated - once the response develops into a phobia it prevents normal functioning occurring.)

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what does it aim to do?

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  • enable patients to unlearn the conditioned response
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what is the assumption of modern desensitisation?

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  • that you cant be afraid and relaxed at the same time as they are two different emotions
  • staying relaxed long enough in the presence of a phobia will cause the patient to longer fear it. `
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what does the first step involve?

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  • learning deep muscle techniques that involve grouping muscles together and tensing and relaxing them
  • patients may be asked to think about happy scenarios
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what does the second step involve?

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  • whilst relaxing patients gradually come into contact with their phobia
  • the heirarchy of possible forms of contact is decided by the patient
  • might start off with imagining the name of the phobia on a piece of paper
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why does Wolpe prefer to use imagination in certain cases?

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  • because some peoples fears are abstract such as fear of criticism of failure
  • he gets those people to think about and imagine that situation
  • between sessions they’ll have homework to confront one of these situations in real life
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what did Levin and Gross find?

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  • they did a literature review of some studies looking at SD and found that 10 said the SD was successful without the need for relaxation
  • but 15 said that relaxation added to the success of SD.
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what did Mcgrath find?

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  • that when dealing with specific phobia’s e.g. spiders 75% showed significant improvement
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what did Craske and Barlow find?

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most clients often relapsed after the first 6 months.

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how is it ethical?

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most ethical out of flooding and SD

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