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The Use Of Graded In Vivo Flooding In The Extinction of Children's Phobias.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

David Galloway  and
Andrew Miller
David Galloway
Affiliation:
Senior Educational Psychologist, Sheffield Education Dept.
Andrew Miller
Affiliation:
Division of Education, Sheffield University.
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Phobias have been defined as excessive fear reactions which are both persistent and unadaptive (Rachman 1974) and have been successfully treated by techniques such as systematic desensitisation (Wolpe 1958) and flooding (Malleson, 1959). Rudestam and Bedrosian (1977) have shown their relative effectiveness to depend upon the type of phobia. Although the client constructs a similar fear hierarchy graded flooding differs from systematic desensitisation in that he is not permitted to “escape” from an item on the hierarchy by returning to an earlier, less threatening one when he experiences fear. Instead, he is required to maintain the activity which has been specified until it no longer evokes anxiety. In the studies described below frequent verbal encouragement was used to elicit and maintain the target behaviours.

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Research Article
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 1978 , pp. 7 - 10
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1978

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