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Title: What is in vivo desensitization?
Post by: AlexClark on Mar 4, 2018
What is in vivo desensitization?
 
  a. Imaginal experience actually happens in real life; in vivo in the clients imagination.
  b. These terms are not used in the systematic desensitization model.
  c. Imaginal problems are fears of imaginary things while in vivo fears are fears where the stressor is real but the client is overreacting.
  d. The intervention actually happens in the clients life; in imaginal interventions the client imagines the situation in the counselors office.
  e. In vivo problems are fears of imaginary things while imaginal fears are fears where the stressor is real but the client is overreacting.

Q. 2

When using systematic desensitization, how does a counselor prepare the client for the process?
 
  a. The client draws up a list of anxiety causing events from most to least provoking and imagines the people involved with each event.
  b. The counselor helps the client get into the state of anxiety that is associated with the specific fear that they are going to work on and gives the client a worksheet for analyzing the problem.
  c. The counselor helps the client learn progressive relaxation techniques and the client draws up a list of anxiety causing events from most to least anxiety provoking.
  d. The counselor helps the client learn progressive relaxation techniques and instructs the client to use them whenever confronted with the stressor.
  e. The counselor helps the client get into the state of anxiety that is associated with the specific fear that they are going to work on and then brings in a person who deals with the stressor effectively.

Q. 3

Who developed the concept of systematic desensitization?
 
  a. Ivan Pavlov
  b. B.F. Skinner
  c. John B. Watson
  d. Edward Thorndike
  e. Joseph Wolpe

Q. 4

In behavioral therapy, what is the fear reduction method called systematic desensitization?
 
  a. Reduction of emotional reactions by reasoning with the client about the situationthat there is little to fear.
  b. Teaching the client how to avoid situations that cause them emotional distress of any kind.
  c. Reduction of emotional reactions by exposure to the feared stimuli in an organized wayfrom least frightening to most frightening aspect of the situation.
  d. Teaching the client coping mechanisms like self affirmations to get through tough situations.
  e. Reduction of emotional reactions to situations by showing the client another person successfully confronting similar situations.

Q. 5

In behavioral therapy, what is response cost?
 
  a. A commonly used technique where the counselor delivers a negative reaction whenever the client has difficulty following a contract.
  b. The client's estimates of how much the undesirable behavior is costing him or her.
  c. The fee that the client pays for extra counseling sessions.
  d. A term associated with aversion therapy, wherein rewards are given when a client is not performing an undesirable behavior.
  e. A term associated with aversion therapy where an undesirable behavior results automatically in an aversive experience.

Q. 6

____________________ therapy is based on the idea of counter-conditioning in which a good experience is turned into a bad one.
 
  a. Adventure
  b. Reversal
  c. Transgression
  d. Subtle
  e. Aversion


Title: What is in vivo desensitization?
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