Systematic desensitization therapy with children: A case study and some suggested modifications.

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Kissel
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Desensitization ◽  
Desensitization Therapy

Demonstration of Slide Projection as an Alternative to Imaginal Stimulus Presentation in Systematic Desensitization Therapy

1968 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 527-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Goldberg ◽  
Thomas J. D'Zurilla
Keyword(s):  
Relaxation Training ◽  
Substantial Reduction ◽  
Stimulus Presentation ◽  
Systematic Desensitization ◽  
Desensitization Therapy ◽  
Slide Projection ◽  
Injection Procedure

This case study demonstrated the use of slide projection as an alternative to imaginal stimulus presentation in the systematic desensitization treatment of two clients with an incapacitating fear of receiving injections. The outcome was quite successful in both cases. Prior to treatment, neither client could be encouraged to rake a test injection. Following treatment, both clients completed a test injection procedure and reported a substantial reduction in anxiety. The outcome was not successful with two similar clients who received only relaxation training. Several informal observations suggest that slide projection has certain advantages over the imaginal procedure and could be more effective in certain cases.

A Successful Adaptation of Systematic Desensitization in the Treatment of a Phobia of Babies

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Michael Free ◽  
Margaret Beekhuis
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Treatment Strategy ◽  
Physiological Measures ◽  
Systematic Desensitization ◽  
Physiological Measure ◽  
One Year

A case study is presented of a young woman with an unusual phobia, a fear of babies. Barabasz's (1977) technique of systematic desensitization using psycho-physiological measures was chosen as the main treatment strategy. Difficulties arose as the client was unable to visualise scenes involving babies. Nor could she look at photographs of babies long enough for the hierarchy to be ordered using a psycho-physiological measure (skin conductance). A set of photographs was eventually used for the hierarchy, but it was ordered in terms of the length of time the client could look at the various photographs. Systematic desensitization was carried out using the set of photographs instead of imaginary scenes, together with some in vivo exposure in the latter stages of treatment. At termination the client could approach babies without discomfort. Improvement was maintained at one year follow-up.

Why Do People Get Better With Exposure Therapy?

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Carolyn Black Becker ◽  
Nicholas R. Farrell ◽  
Glenn Waller
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Therapeutic Intervention ◽  
Exposure Therapy ◽  
Therapeutic Benefit ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Systematic Desensitization ◽  
Evidence Based Treatments ◽  
Inhibitory Learning

This chapter outlines a theoretically based rationale for using exposure consistently in the treatment of individuals with eating disorders. Due to the substantial overlap between eating disorders and anxiety disorders (both in symptom content and in comorbidity between the conditions), exposure therapy is a sound choice for therapeutic intervention. Indeed, the most evidence-based treatments for eating disorders contain a number of exposure-based strategies that drive much of the therapeutic benefit. The chapter discusses habituation, systematic desensitization, and inhibitory learning and differentiates exposure therapy from systematic desensitization. Using a case study to consider how exposure therapists can help patients learn to tolerate their anxiety by leaning into it rather than engaging in safety behaviors, this chapter lays the foundation for the application of exposure therapy to patients with eating disorders.

CBT for a Person With Schizophrenia: Systematic Desensitization for Phobias Led to Positive Symptom Improvement

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Dudley ◽  
Jaime Dixon ◽  
Douglas Turkington
Keyword(s):  
Successful Treatment ◽  
Specific Phobia ◽  
Positive Symptom ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Symptom Improvement ◽  
Systematic Desensitization ◽  
Antipsychotic Medications ◽  
Affective Symptoms ◽  
Effect Of Treatment

Affective symptoms are often present and under-treated in schizophrenia. This case study reports the effect of treatment of a specific phobia and associated avoidance on the psychotic symptoms of a patient with medication resistant schizophrenia. The treatment of the specific phobia and agoraphobia followed a traditional systematic desensitization procedure. The successful treatment of the phobias led to improvements in psychotic symptoms. Previously, the client had only a limited response to a number of antipsychotic medications including clozapine but responded well to a traditional systematic desensitization program that produced positive consequences for the psychotic symptomatology. The clinical and theoretical aspects of this case are discussed.

Hypnosis and the Desensitization Behavior Therapies

1970 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart B. Litvak
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Desensitization ◽  
Desensitization Therapy ◽  
Mental Operations

A distinction is made between desensitization techniques carried out in vivo and other modes of desensitization therapy (flooding, implosion, and systematic desensitization) which rely upon mental operations or processes. Research is reviewed and points are discussed which support a position supporting a relationship between variables and phenomena found in the desensitization therapies and those found in hypnosis. This relationship appears to be greatest in those desensitization therapies basing treatment upon the utilization of mental operations. Some new lines of research are then proposed.

Systematic Desensitization Therapy: An Analysis of Results in Twenty-seven Patients

1966 ◽  
Vol 112 (484) ◽  
pp. 295-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Hain ◽  
R. H. G. Butcher ◽  
I. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Symptomatic Treatment ◽  
Controlled Study ◽  
Systematic Desensitization ◽  
Behaviour Therapy ◽  
General Applicability ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
Desensitization Therapy ◽  
Analysis Of Results ◽  
Principles Of Learning ◽  
Careful Investigation

The need for the development of shorter and more effective techniques of psychotherapy justifies a careful investigation of any methods which offer this possibility. A number of therapeutic techniques (7, 15, 18, 20) now often subsumed under the heading of Behaviour Therapy (4) and based on various principles of learning theory call for examination, since their exponents claim that these methods can make therapy both shorter and more effective than can other methods, e.g., those based on psychoanalytic theory. Published reports of results with behaviour therapy to date consist largely of the assessment of results made by a therapist on his own patients, e.g., Wolpe (20, 21), Lazarus (9), Rachman (12). Cooper (2) studied results achieved by other therapists on thirty patients treated with various techniques of behaviour therapy. His survey included a comparison, using “blind” independent assessors, of a group of patients treated with behaviour therapy and a matched group of patients treated by other techniques. Cooper concluded that this comparison showed a definite advantage for behaviour therapy in the symptomatic treatment of phobias, but he could find no evidence supporting the claim of a superiority of the methods of behaviour therapy over conventional techniques in producing general changes. Unfortunately Cooper does not report the experience level of the therapists in his study except to say that they were a “variety of student and staff psychologists”. Evidence for a superiority of behaviour therapy must derive from a controlled comparison of matched groups of patients treated with techniques of behaviour therapy and with other techniques by therapists of comparable competence. But, pending judgment from such a controlled study, we believe ample evidence exists that techniques of behaviour therapy do bring comparable improvements more rapidly than do other treatments in some patients. The greater precision and shortening of therapy for these patients would alone constitute a very notable advance in psychotherapy, apart from claims of a wider or general applicability of these techniques. For this reason we believe it important to investigate these various techniques in as much detail as possible. Wolpe describes the most important of them as systematic desensitization (20, 21).

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