Systematic Desensitisation
Flooding/Implosion
Activities:
phobias treatment case studies
comparing treatments phobias
phobias timeline
qr-codes-for-phobia-treatments(useful for extension work)
Assessment Questions:
- Daphne has severe ornithophobia (fear of birds). Describe one therapy that could help Daphne to overcome her phobia (5)
- Describe how one therapy other than systematic desensitisation could be sued to help Daphne (4)
- Compare two treatments for phobias (4)
- Straight: Evaluate systematic desensitisation as a treatment for phobias. (8)
- Straight: Evaluate one treatment/other than systematic desensitisation that may be used to treat phobias. (8)
- Context/Synoptic: Gladys is terrified of pineapples. She has been offered a free holiday to the Caribbean but the thought of going fills her with horror in case she comes across a pineapple. To what extent might the learning theories and biological psychology help Gladys to overcome her phobia? (12)
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