Exposure Therapy – Flashcards
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Exposure
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directly confronting feared stimuli characteristic of ____________therapy
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that behavioral disorders can best be treated by directly exposing the patient to the emotional pain.
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common element between Implosive therapy, Prolonged exposure and Eye movement Desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
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Thomas Stampfl
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founder of implosive therapy
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avoidance
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According to implosive therapy__________is at the heart of of psychopathology
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defense mechanism that reduces anxiety in the short term. examples phobics avoide stimuli such as dogs, heights
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learned avoidance
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when we apply to everyone or everything, anxiety we have towards one person or event.
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generalization
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the gradual disappearance of the conditioned anxiety because it is no longer reinforced.
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extinction
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technique in which therapists prevent patients from performing their typical avoidance behaviors
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response prevention
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prolonged exposure principals
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Edna B. Foa
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conditioned response controlled by respondent learning and operant learning.
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exposure therapist, in the behavioral tradition view anxiety as a ---------------.
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(same as classical learning) e.g. introduce A+B and you get reaction C; eventually, when only A is introduced, you still get reaction C
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respondent learning
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any procedure in which a behavior becomes stronger or weaker (e.g., more or less likely to occur), depending on its consequences. --Also called instrumental learning
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operant learning
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behaviour that persists even thouhg it may be maladaptive (OCD) Freud
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neurotic paradox
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involves facing fear, diminishing its intensity, and coming to some new understanding about the trauma and its consequences
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emotional processing
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A method of behavior therapy for phobias in which the therapist describes the feared object in graphic terms, thereby inducing fear w/o direct exposure to the object
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imaginal exposure
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where they expose themselves to the actual stimulus
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in vivo exposure
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decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus
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habituation
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learning to take slow deep breaths from the diaphragm
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breathing retraining
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exposuring substance abusers to cue (smell of beer, sight of a joint, etc). goal is to increase ability to expeirnece the cue and not abuse
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cue exposure
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Degree to which research findings have useful and meaningful applications to real problems.
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clinical significance
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a statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance
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statistical significance
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founder of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
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Francine shapiro
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repetitive thoughts that do not move and that block processing
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looping
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'doing to' instead of 'being with'
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view of exposure therapy from humanistic perspective
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form of behavior therapy in which virtual reality is used to simulate real-world environments that can be used as therapeutic tools
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virtual reality therapy
