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9 lis 2023 · The technique is based on the principle of extinction, which suggests that when a person is exposed to a feared stimulus repeatedly and for a prolonged period without any negative consequences occurring, their fear response will diminish.
1 sty 1979 · Baum (1970), for example, uses "flooding" to describe a procedure whereby an avoidance response is blocked in the presence of the conditional stimulus (CS), whereas Polin (1959) reserves "flooding" for his technique of allowing avoidance in the continued presence of the CS.
Exposure therapy has ethical problems but flooding is an in vitro technique that causes less intense distress. Although exposure therapy works best on simple phobias, like animals or objects, flooding can be used for more complex phobias, like social situations.
Flooding, sometimes referred to as in vivo exposure therapy, is a form of behavior therapy and desensitization—or exposure therapy—based on the principles of respondent conditioning. As a psychotherapeutic technique, it is used to treat phobia and anxiety disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder .
1 sty 1977 · Three analogue experiments examined flooding therapy. Experiment 1 showed that flooding was more effective than standardized desensitization in reducing snake phobia. Experiment 2 examined three different modes of presenting the feared stimuli in flooding: taped auditory presentation, pictorial presentation, and a combination of these two.
1 sty 2006 · We highlight the fact that in vivo flooding, an exposure technique that has been used to treat some anxiety-based disorders, has received scant clinical and research attention as a treatment for posttraumatic stress.
9 sie 2022 · Flooding therapy is an intensive type of exposure therapy in which you must face your fear at a maximum level of intensity for an extended amount of time. There’s no avoiding the situation...
