1. Behavioural treatments Fun times…

2. Produce a pamphlet…  You are a newly qualified behavioural therapist and have just been trained to offer the 3 following types of therapies to clients with OCD or phobias: –Systematic desensitisation –Virtual reality exposure therapy –Flooding  Explain what each is – i.e. what anxiety disorder they target  Explain the 3 step process they will encounter  Explain how long the sessions will take  Explain How it works in their benefit  Explain other anxiety disorders it may work for

3. Systematic desensitisation A behavioural therapy used to treat anxiety disorders by pairing the once feared stimuli with relaxation

4. Draw a 5 boxed storyboard  Wolpe (1958)  Competing emotions  Replace fear with relaxation  3 STEPS (5 PICTURES!)  Draw a storyboard displaying how someone would cope with a phobia of your choice….  Also – what does in vivo mean?  However why can SD sometimes be ineffective as a treatment of OCD?

5. Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy  Based on S.D. but this time in the virtual world  Think treatment for aeroplane phobias  This time however the 3 steps are a little different from SD so look at how…

6. Flooding  Overwhelm the individual with the fear provoking stimuli until they realise no harm will come to them  Now list the three steps involved in flooding  Also describe implosion therapy and exposure and response therapy

7. 1. Outline a biological treatment for phobias? (3 marks) 2. Outline a biological treatment for OCD? (3 marks) 3. Outline a behavioural treatment for phobias? (3 marks) 4. Outline a behavioural treatment for OCD? (3 marks) 5. Give one strength and one limitation of drugs as a treatment for anxiety disorders. (4 marks) 6. Give one strength and one limitation of systematic desensitisation for the treatment of anxiety disorders. (4 marks) 7. Give one strength and one limitation of Virtual reality exposure therapy for the treatment of anxiety disorders. (4 marks) 8. Give one strength and one limitation of Virtual reality exposure therapy for the treatment of anxiety disorders. (4 marks) 9. Give one strength and one limitation for in vivo exposure therapy compared to in vitro exposure therapy. (4 marks) 10. What therapy works best for Phobias and why (3 marks) 11. What therapy works best for OCD and why? (3 marks)

8. Cognitive Treatments.  What is the main aim of cognitive therapy for the treatment of phobias?  What do cognitive therapists teach their clients to do to cope with the phobias?  Give one example of how patients would be taught how to change their distorted thoughts.  What is probably the worst distorted thought someone with a fear of germs could have?  What counterstatement could you give that person to challenge the distorted thinking?  Now apply the two above questions to the following phobias/Obsessive thoughts: –Agoraphobia –Social phobia –Windmills  What are cognitive treatments also sometimes used in conjunction with?  What is this type of therapy called?  Graziano and Mooney (1980) produced a study that illustrates clearly the treatment of a phobia using CBT. Draw a story board using only 6 boxes to outline this study  Give one advantage of Cognitive therapy for the treatment of anxiety disorders.  What did Marks (1987) find when he reviewed treatments for phobias and OCD?  It is not clear what element of therapy is the most effective at treating anxiety disorders. Discuss….