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    This document discusses various psychological interventions for treating phobias, including exposure therapy, systematic desensitization, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Exposure therapy involves intentionally exposing patients to feared situations to show them the situation is not dangerous. Systematic desensitization uses relaxation techniques and gradually exposing patients to feared situations from a hierarchy. CBT helps patients overcome distorted negative thinking patterns leading to maladaptive behaviors by teaching new thinking skills. The document provides examples of using these therapies to treat specific phobias like arachnophobia, acrophobia, and a fear of birds.

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    This document discusses various psychological interventions for treating phobias, including exposure therapy, systematic desensitization, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Exposure therapy involves intentionally exposing patients to feared situations to show them the situation is not dangerous. Systematic desensitization uses relaxation techniques and gradually exposing patients to feared situations from a hierarchy. CBT helps patients overcome distorted negative thinking patterns leading to maladaptive behaviors by teaching new thinking skills. The document provides examples of using these therapies to treat specific phobias like arachnophobia, acrophobia, and a fear of birds.

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    This document discusses various psychological interventions for treating phobias, including exposure therapy, systematic desensitization, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Exposure therapy involves intentionally exposing patients to feared situations to show them the situation is not dangerous. Systematic desensitization uses relaxation techniques and gradually exposing patients to feared situations from a hierarchy. CBT helps patients overcome distorted negative thinking patterns leading to maladaptive behaviors by teaching new thinking skills. The document provides examples of using these therapies to treat specific phobias like arachnophobia, acrophobia, and a fear of birds.

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    Applications of learning theory:

    Psychological Interventions/treatment

    Choose a fear/phobia either in general or that you have (if you feel comfortable) , and develop your own
    anxiety hierarchy, starting with the least threatening situation to most threatening. You may discuss with
    people around you if you wish. 

    Least threat Most threat

    Exposure therapy
    Behaviour therapy is a treatment of choice for phobias, alcoholism, bed wetting, truancy, taste version etc.

    This often involves exposure therapy – often intense and over the top – see the https://www.youtube.com/watch?
    v=wE5F-FjbTRk video as examples. (Agoraphobia)

     The goal is to show the person that the situation will not have the expected fearful consequences.

     It might help to expose the person intensively to the feared situation.

     If panic attacks are involved, the person should be taught ways to control the panic attack, such as
    through deep breathing, or relaxation.

    ** read the reading on exposure therapy in our resources and watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDiCfMNgtFg

    Systematic Desensitization
    Effective treatment for phobias in which clients are taught relaxation techniques and then asked to imagine or
    approach feared situations gradually.
    **Watch the case study on treating acrophobia with systematic desensitization https://youtu.be/omYECykyQWE

    Three Steps: EXAMPLE: Phobia of spiders (arachnophobia)

    1) Establish a Fear Hierarchy Least to most scary- photo of spider, tiny


    spider at other end of Adelaide oval, spider in
    cage, holding a teranchella.
    Relaxation Technique:
    2) Utilise Relaxation Techniques Inhale through your nose. When you inhale, your
    stomach should expand.
    Hold your breath for 3 seconds
    Exhale through your mouth

    Patient asked to imagine least fearful situation,


    close eyes and use relaxation techniques-
    3) Be introduced to the move up hierarchy until phobia is gone.
    fear in small steps

    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)


    Cognitive behaviour therapy is sometimes called 'cognitive therapy'.
    It involves learning from a therapist to overcome the distorted, negative thinking patterns that can lead to maladaptive
    behaviours.
    Depression: depressed people have negative views of their world, themselves and their future.
    Cognitive behaviour therapists can treat depression by getting a depressed person to do more things that give them
    pleasure, helping them to solve problems in their life, and learning better social skills.
    An advantage of cognitive behaviour therapy is that it helps people learn skills that may prevent them from becoming
    depressed in the future. Cognitive behaviour therapy may not be suitable for severely depressed people because they
    may be too depressed to learn the new thinking skills.

    Jackie had a very intense phobia of birds, which has now generalised to feathers. This phobia severely
    restricted Jackie in her everyday functioning. She was determined to beat her phobia, and the below
    YouTube clips shows the process of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in changing Jackie's distorted
    thoughts on feathers. Professor Paul leads the CBT session with Jackie in part 2. 

    Part 1 (begin watching at 2:27) - https://youtu.be/BzNSYw7xwpU


    Part 4 – The CBT Session - https://youtu.be/lMZ5o2uruXY

    EXAM QUESTION 2015 ( ANSWERS ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM- after you have given them a go)

    Some of Jo’s friends are planning to flu to an island resort for a holiday next year. Jo has been invited to join them, but
    is afraid of flying.
    Explain how systematic desensitisation can be used to help Jo overcome the fear of flying.

    Gigi needs to ride a bus to school every morning. Recently on the way to school Gigi’s bus was in a car accident. Now
    whenever Gigi is on a bus she becomes anxious and fearful. This phobia is affecting her attendance at school.
    Describe one psychological intervention Gigi could use to overcome her phobia of buses.

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