Describe flooding.
What will be an ideal response?
Flooding therapy constitutes either an in vivo or imaginal exposure to anxiety-evoking stimuli for a prolonged period of time. The principles underlying flooding are similar to those for desensitization. When clients avoid exposure to a fear situation, they are reinforced by their relief of not facing it. Flooding maintains that anxiety cannot be sustained with prolonged or repeated exposure to a situation, when no actual aversive consequences take place from such exposure. In flooding therapy, the therapist exposes the client to a safe version of the fearsome stimulus at maximum intensity. As a consequence of the flooding or high exposure to the stimuli, the client’s anxiety reaction burns out, and extinction occurs after that. Time exposure is critical in exposure therapies. If the exposure is long enough, extinction takes place.
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a. True b False
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