Systematic Desensitisation Therapy

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Systematic Desensitisation is a therapy based on classical condition. The aim is to use relaxation to desensitise against fear and anxiety. It must begin with the therapist and the child drawing a hierarchy of fear provoking situations, with the least fearful at the bottom and the most fearful at the top. Starting at the bottom, the child is trained to completely relax during this situation. Once the child is able to be completely relaxed in this situation, he then moves onto the next situation in the hierarchy until all the fears are extinguished. This means that the controlled stimulus and controlled response link is broken.

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