Question

Martha and Stan are newlyweds. They see a therapist because Martha is afraid of sexual intercourse. The therapist asks Martha exactly which acts make her anxious, constructs a hierarchy of those threatening acts, teaches her to relax, and asks her to imagine each threatening scene in the hierarchy and use the relaxation technique to reduce her anxiety as she imagines each scene from the bottom to the top of her hierarchy. The therapist is using _______.

Answer 1

The correct answer to the following question will be "Desensitization ".

Step-by-step explanation:

• In sociology, desensitization has been characterized as those of the reduced emotional sensitivity after long term exposure to something like an unpleasant, aversion as well as supportive or neutral stimulus.
• The method of influencing others to feel something a little less intense than it was before, commonly a feeling instead of a discomfort.

So, the therapist uses "Desensitization".