A client is in therapy with a nurse practitioner for the treatment of arachnophobia. The nurse practitioner decides to use the technique of "flooding." Which intervention best exemplifies this technique?
A. Giving rewards for demonstrating a decrease in fear of spiders
B. Encouraging the client to sit through the movie "Spiderman"
C. Accompanying the client to a 1-hour visit to the local zoo's spider room
D. Offering a computer program that progressively presents anxiety-producing spider scenarios
ANS: C
Visiting the spider room would flood the client with the phobic stimuli of real spiders. This would continue until the stimulus no longer creates anxiety.
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