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BRWH

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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

Question 2

During a smoking cessation group, the community health nurse explains that in their effort to quit smoking, a reciprocal inhibition approach will be used. The nurse should give the group which example of this technique?
 
  A. Before you can smoke, you must first take a half-hour walk.
  B. When you have the urge to smoke, imagine being short of breath.
  C. You'll receive 1 for each cigarette not smoked and forfeit 2 for each cigarette smoked.
  D. When you have the urge to smoke, hold your breath and then rhythmically breathe.



SeanoH09

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Answer to Question 1

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.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
These breathing exercises cannot be done while the client smokes. Therefore, they decrease or eliminate the undesired behavior (smoking) that is incompatible with the desired behavior (smoking cessation). This is an example of the behavior therapy of reciprocal inhibition.



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