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Therapeutic Approaches And Counselling — Psychology STD 12 Humanities — Question

CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 HumanitiesPsychologyTherapeutic Approaches And Counselling2 Marks
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What is systematic desensitisation?
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Systematic Desensitisation– by Wolpe:
  1. A treatment for phobias/irrational fears.
  2. The client is interviewed to elicit fear– provoking situations.
  3. The therapist prepares a hierarchy of anxiety provoking stimuli.
  4. The therapist relaxes the client.
  5. Over sessions the client is able to imagine more severe fear provoking situations while maintaining the relaxation. So the client gets systematically desensitised to the fear.

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