One of the most challenging aspects of conducting implosive therapy is that it requires a therapist:
a. to face horrifying and frightening scenes from their own past.
b. to terminate distressing images at specific points in the anxiety cycle.
c. to intensify distressing images or scenes to evoke maximal levels of anxiety and stay with it until the anxiety and other emotions dissipate.
d. to terminate the exposure to distressing scenes at the peak of anxiety.
Question 2
At its core, implosive therapy attempts to extinguish or reduce pathological anxiety by:
a. reinforcing adaptive avoidance responses. b. presenting clients with anxiety-provoking stimuli while preventing avoidance responses.
c. promoting generalization from an unconditioned anxiety-eliciting stimulus.
d. deepening avoidance repression of conditioned stimuli.
Gene Therapy
Group therapy.
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A group therapy session.
Therapy for Nonspecific Diarrhea
Massage Therapist, c. 1985.