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Treating Phobias - Coggle Diagram
Treating Phobias
Evaluation - SD
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(+) Less effort: relatively fast and requires less effort - CBT requires a lot of time and effort to master the techniques that change dysfunctional thinking
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(-) Only works with some phobias: evidence shows it is not effective with social phobias such as agoraphobia
(-) Not effective for everyone: Not effective for every person with a phobia - particularly true for children - not everyone can master relaxation techniques nor face particular situations, so for these people it will not be effective.
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Flooding
There is no graduation of the phobic stimulus and the highest fear is confronted immediately. Up to 3 hours long but in many cases only one session is needed to cure the phobias.
Works because of extinction - conditioned stimulus in encountered without the unconditioned stimulus and therefore is removed.
A persons fear response has a time limit. As adrenaline levels naturally decrease a new stimulus response link can be learned between feared stimulus and relaxation.
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Evaluation
(+) Cost effective: Ougrin compared flooding to CBT and found that it is highly effective and quicker at removing some phobias
(-) Not suitable for all phobias: this may be because social phobias have cognitive aspects. this type of phobia may benefit more from cognitive therapies because these therapies tackle the irrational thinking.
(-) Traumatic experience: Patients are obviously made aware of this before the treatment and so informed consent is obtained however some people believe because patients are vulnerable and distressed.