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Describe the principal techniques of behavioral therapy and show how any two of them may be applied in the treatment of an anxiety disorder - What are the merits and demerits of this type of approach to psychological disorders?
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Describe the principal techniques of behavioral therapy and show how any two of them may be applied in the treatment of an anxiety disorder. What are the merits and demerits of this type of approach to psychological disorders? Behavioural therapy is based on a behavioural model that suggests that all behaviour, normal and abnormal is learned, or conditioned. Any "symptoms" described by the client are learnt behaviour and not the results of some underlying complex. Therefore behavioural therapies help the client to improve his/her behaviour by learning and unlearning, conditioning and extinguishing forms of behaviour, which are adjusted or maladjusted (Eysenck, 1976). This essay first describes behavioural therapies such as systematic desensitisation, in vivo exposure, flooding, modeling and behavioural rehearsal. Then it applies systematic desensitisation and modeling to a bird phobia and finally it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these behavioural therapies when used to cure psychological...
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