Implosive Therapy
- Systematic Desensitization. The behavior therapy movement was up and running by 1970 complete with several new books, three new journals, and two new societies.
- Cognitive Behavioural Treatment for Hypochondriasis. ...
- Classical Conditioning. ...
- Nightmares: A new neurocognitive model
What is implosion therapy in psychology?
Implosive therapy (or implosion therapy; Stampfl & Levis, 1968) is a form of exposure therapy similar to the imaginal form of flooding, with which it can be confused. Although there are similarities, the terms implosive therapy and flooding cannot be used interchangeably. Both implosive therapy and flooding expose the client to anxiety arousing stimuli for prolonged …
How long does implosive therapy take to work?
Implosion therapy, also called flooding, seeks to help the client by directly exposing him to the source of his fear. This form of behavior therapy works with the principle that fear is time limited. For instance, an individual who has arachnophobia (fear of spiders) will be locked in a room with harmless spiders. After being in a state of extreme anxiety, the client will then feel exhausted …
What was the first research study on implosive therapy?
A new technique is described for the treatment of phobic patients which may be more effective than other available methods to date. Three out of four patients treated by implosion (flooding) became almost symptom-free after a mean of 14 sessions and remained so over six-and-a-half months' follow-up. …
How do you use implosive therapy on a rat?
A new technique is described for the treatment of phobic patients which may be more effective than other available methods to date. Three out of four patients treated by implosion (flooding) became almost symptom-free after a mean of 14 sessions and remained so over six-and-a-half months' follow-up. The mechanism of action of the method is not yet clear.
Is implosion therapy the same as flooding?
What is covert sensitization therapy?
Is flooding therapy Effective?
How does flooding therapy work?
What are aversive stimuli?
What is Behavioural rehearsal?
What are some disorders in which virtual reality therapy would be helpful?
What is an example of flooding in psychology?
For example, a person suffering from a fear of social situations (social anxiety) might be treated by attending a party or reception, perhaps with their mental health clinician by their side.Mar 3, 2020
How is flooding used to treat a phobia?
What are the 3 types of therapy?
- Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies. This approach focuses on changing problematic behaviors, feelings, and thoughts by discovering their unconscious meanings and motivations. ...
- Behavior therapy. ...
- Cognitive therapy. ...
- Humanistic therapy. ...
- Integrative or holistic therapy.
What is the difference between flooding and desensitization?
What is a phobia treatment?
Treatment of Phobias. A phobia is an irrational fear that is intense enough to render a person dysfunctional and distressed. As discussed above, the case of Little Albert was John Watson's attempt to develop a model of fear (with known history) in order to develop a treatment to take fear away from a person.
What was the behavior therapy movement in 1970?
The behavior therapy movement was up and running by 1970 complete with several new books, three new journals, and two new societies. In this context the early experiments reported by Peter J. Lang and his colleagues spawned scores of experiments in which pretreatment and posttreatment measures of fear of snakes among college students were used to evaluate the effects of systematic desensitization. Some of the experiments compared the effects of systematic desensitization with the effects of competing behavior-influence packages, notably implosive therapy and imaginal flooding. Most of the experiments compared the effects of systematic desensitization with those procedural variations that were germane for one reason or another. Many questions were asked. Is muscular relaxation training necessary for fear reduction with systematic desensitization? Must the imaging instructions proceed along a graded, increasingly fearsome hierarchy of scenarios? Must the participant be permitted to govern his or her own rate of progress along the scenario hierarchy?
What is behavioural therapy?
As far as behavioural therapy intervention is concerned various techniques have been used to treat fear of illness, belief that one has an illness or hypochondriac behaviours present in other clinical manifestations.
What is a phobia?
A phobia is an irrational fear that is intense enough to render a person dysfunctional and distressed. As discussed above, the case of Little Albert was John Watson's attempt to develop a model of fear (with known history) in order to develop a treatment to take fear away from a person. His student Mary Cover Jones continued his work and developed one of the earliest behavioral therapies based on what she called unconditioning. The approach was to introduce the established fear stimulus (white rat or rabbit) gradually, while keeping the child relaxed and distracted by allowing him to eat a favorite food (and the loud noise was omitted). Years later, in 1958, Joseph Wolpe used this as the basis for his so-called systematic desensitization through reciprocal inhibition or counterconditioning. Research over the following years revealed that the clinically relevant component of unconditioning, systematic desensitization, or reciprocal inhibition was extinction (though changing the value of the CS from being a predictor of something unpleasant to a predictor of something pleasant may contribute to a successful treatment as well). In this and other treatments such as flooding and implosive therapy, based on extinction, the client is exposed to the fear CS without being exposed to the fear US (and without being allowed to avoid the CS by withdrawal, for example). As a result, the CS loses its fear-eliciting properties.
What is nocturnal enuresis?
Nocturnal enuresis refers to bedwetting in children who are considered to be too old developmentally for bedwetting. One treatment approach is based on classical conditioning, which is applied after organic or medical conditions have been excluded as a possible cause for enuresis. For this, a pad (constructed like a sandwich of two sheets of mesh wire, separated by a cotton sheet) is placed under the sleeping child. When the child urinates on the pad (and, urine being a good conductor, thus closing the electrical circuit), a battery-operated alarm goes off and wakes up the child. The sensation of a full bladder is thought to be the CS, the alarm the US, waking up to the alarm the UR, and waking up to the sensation of a full bladder the CR. (When the CR occurs, enuresis is eliminated.) Note that the sensation of a full bladder always precedes the sound of the alarm. Thus, the sensation of a full bladder becomes an effective CS eliciting a waking up response. Note that no awareness of learning is required for classical conditioning to be effective (i.e., the conditioning can take place even though the child is sleeping). Note also that there is an alternative explanation in terms of operant conditioning, which is beyond the scope of this article.
What is Kramer's theory of dreaming?
Kramer's 86,146 mood regulatory theory of dreaming provides an alternative, although potentially compatible, view of emotion regulation during dreaming. The model is premised on findings consistent with the claim that REM sleep is characterized by a ‘surge’ of affective arousal, i.e., a progressive increase and plateau in limbic system, eye movement, heart and respiratory activity across the REM period. Dream content is thought to adaptively regulate or ‘contain’ these surges by decreasing the intensity and variability of the associated emotion. Containment is achieved by a longitudinal pattern of dream content that unfolds over successive REM periods of the night and is referred to as ‘progressive–sequential’ (P–S) in nature. P–S dream patterns enable a form of emotional problem solving that ameliorates mood. The P–S pattern is distinguished from a repetitive-traumatic pattern during which an emotional conflict is simply stated and restated without evidence of adaptive change. Nightmares presumably occur when the capacity of dreaming to assimilate the emotional surge with P–S pattern dreams is exceeded.
Does hypochondriasis cause anxiety?
Patients with hypochondriasis share high levels of anxiety and avoidance behaviour with phobic patients. Equally, behaviour similar to the compulsive rituals of obsessive-compulsive disorder is common, such as constant evaluation of the body state and the search for comforting information.
Exposure therapy: Implosion
Implosion therapy, a behavioral fear exposure therapy technique, in my estimation is the most powerful though poorly understood therapy for addressing fears, phobias, PTSD and a host of other presenting symptoms and concerns. As a graduate student at Binghamton University, I had the good fortune to work closely with Dr.
Anxiety is Not an Emotion!
I think the best way to treat a client that surfer from irrational fear is via practical exposure of the stimulus.
