Behavioural treatments

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Behavioural treatments

• Fun times

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Produce a pamphlet

• You are a newly qualified behavioural therapist
  and have just been trained to offer the 3
  following types of therapies to clients with OCD
  or phobias
• Systematic desensitisation
• Virtual reality exposure therapy
• Flooding
• Explain what each is i.e. what anxiety disorder
  they target
• Explain the 3 step process they will encounter
• Explain how long the sessions will take
• Explain How it works in their benefit
• Explain other anxiety disorders it may work for

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Systematic desensitisation

• A behavioural therapy used to treat
• anxiety disorders by pairing the once feared
  stimuli with relaxation

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Draw a 5 boxed storyboard

• Wolpe (1958)
• Competing emotions
• Replace fear with relaxation
• 3 STEPS (5 PICTURES!)
• Draw a storyboard displaying how someone would
  cope with a phobia of your choice.
• Also what does in vivo mean?
• However why can SD sometimes be ineffective as a
  treatment of OCD?

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Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

• Based on S.D. but this time in the virtual world
• Think treatment for aeroplane phobias
• This time however the 3 steps are a little
  different from SD so look at how

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Flooding

• Overwhelm the individual with the fear provoking
  stimuli until they realise no harm will come to
  them
• Now list the three steps involved in flooding
• Also describe implosion therapy and exposure and
  response therapy

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• Outline a biological treatment for phobias? (3
  marks)
• Outline a biological treatment for OCD? (3 marks)
• Outline a behavioural treatment for phobias? (3
  marks)
• Outline a behavioural treatment for OCD? (3
  marks)
• Give one strength and one limitation of drugs as
  a treatment for anxiety disorders. (4 marks)
• Give one strength and one limitation of
  systematic desensitisation for the treatment of
  anxiety disorders. (4 marks)
• Give one strength and one limitation of Virtual
  reality exposure therapy for the treatment of
  anxiety disorders. (4 marks)
• Give one strength and one limitation of Virtual
  reality exposure therapy for the treatment of
  anxiety disorders. (4 marks)
• Give one strength and one limitation for in vivo
  exposure therapy compared to in vitro exposure
  therapy. (4 marks)
• What therapy works best for Phobias and why (3
  marks)

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Cognitive Treatments.

• What is the main aim of cognitive therapy for the
  treatment of phobias?
• What do cognitive therapists teach their clients
  to do to cope with the phobias?
• Give one example of how patients would be taught
  how to change their distorted thoughts.
• What is probably the worst distorted thought
  someone with a fear of germs could have?
• What counterstatement could you give that person
  to challenge the distorted thinking?
• Now apply the two above questions to the
  following phobias/Obsessive thoughts
• Agoraphobia
• Social phobia
• Windmills
• What are cognitive treatments also sometimes used
  in conjunction with?
• What is this type of therapy called?
• Graziano and Mooney (1980) produced a study that
  illustrates clearly the treatment of a phobia
  using CBT. Draw a story board using only 6 boxes
  to outline this study
• Give one advantage of Cognitive therapy for the
  treatment of anxiety disorders.
• What did Marks (1987) find when he reviewed
  treatments for phobias and OCD?
• It is not clear what element of therapy is the
  most effective at treating anxiety disorders.
  Discuss.