Describe and demonstrate how avoidance conditioning maintains debilitating anxiety in clients and how exposure techniques are used clinically to address this.
What will be an ideal response?
When an individual feels anxious in a particular situation and, subsequently, avoids that situation, avoiding the feared event has the immediate effect of reducing the anxiety. Exposure techniques encourage clients to expose themselves to the feared stimulus under conditions in which no aversive event occurs.
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a. Synthetic-conventional b. Mythical-literal c. Individuative-projective d. Conjunctive
Feminist researchers articulated the impact of how society values men more than women and because of this power imbalance, violence toward women has been seen as normal. This most clearly describes the
a. Patriarchal structure explanation b. Social learning theory explanation c. Abuser’s individual characteristics explanation d. Family systems theory explanation
A test can
a. never be more valid than it is reliable. b. never be more reliable than it is valid. c. never have discrepancies between reliability and validity. d. never have high validity if the test scores have high reliability.
Post incident debriefing includes giving people a warm receptions and assuring them they acted properly and their symptoms are common
Indicate whether the statement is true or false