Question

Abby's therapist and Abby have developed a hierarchy of social situations that range from not very threatening to very threatening. The therapist's strategy is to start with the least threatening and work up to assist Abby in not being so sensitive to rejection, to improve Abby's sense of unworthiness, and to assist her in having more relationships with others. This is a description of using _____ _____ to treat Abby's diagnosis of avoidant personality disorder.

Answer 1

Graduated exposure.

Step-by-step explanation:

This treatment is also called systematic desensitization. It is a treatment therapy form that is used to categorically tackle avoidance of feared situations, objects and also activities due to anxiety. Treatment pattern in this therapy is seen to practically combine a persons cognitive and behaviours which is mostly used in retraining the brain. Here, it is seen that the brain is been taught that it doesn’t need to create pain in reaction to specific situations and movements.

In scenarios where the pain are seen to be very hard or have a high effect on the person/patient, this graded exposure will be done in vivo, meaning that patients are facing their feared activities directly.