Author Question: From Stampfl's perspective, preventing or blocking a client from engaging in avoidance responses in ... (Read 45 times)

renzo156 · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

From Stampfl's perspective, preventing or blocking a client from engaging in avoidance responses in the presence of conditioned stimuli would most likely lead to:

a. generalization. c. extinction or reduction of avoidance responses.
b. increased avoidance. d. prolonged and overwhelming anxiety.

Question 2

This same women further reported many memories of running home from school excited to tell her parents about the day's events and longing to have contact with them to only find her parents passed out from alcohol abuse or unpredictably and frighteningly abusive toward her. Not surprisingly, she reported panic-like bouts of anxiety before coming to her second and third therapy sessions and whenever she seemed to be looking forward to potentially satisfying social connections and thus worked hard to avoid thinking about such experiences. This is known as:

a. phobic avoidance.
b. negative reinforcement.
c. implosion repression.
d. avoidance repression.