Flooding Disorder

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Flooding is a behavioral technique that is generally used on common, everyday phobias. The client is accompanied by their phobia for a prolonged period of time (Gaston, 2015). Ultimately, the intended outcome is for the client’s anxiety or fear to subside after being around their phobia for the allotted amount of time they are exposed. Once the client unwinds, they tend to feel more comfortable around their phobia than they were originally (Gaston,2015). According to a study done in 2002, long exposure to a phobia has not been found to have a vast amount of complications, the technique was even said to be considered safe to use on clients with a vast amount of mental disorders (Gaston,2015). A few of these disorders include major depression …show more content…

In conclusion, the therapy was successful. As for the HLM results showed the change of symptoms was associated with the between-session habituation. The response status was responsible for 95% of the variance in the SUDS between sessions slope (Sripada, Rauch, 2015). The high responders displayed a 5.42 average decline between sessions (Sripada, Rauch, 2015).
PTSD is a common disorder that the flooding technique is used for. There are many phobias that PTSD patients can suffer from. One specific example when a client has a phobia of being inside a vehicle because they were injured in an accident while serving the United States. This specific individual is now triggered by the smell of gas, getting in vehicles, or being in small, confined spaces. These triggers can cause panic attacks, sweating, hyperventilation, etc (Foa, McLean, Asnaani, 2015). Using the flooding technique triggers those reactions. The individual is exposed to their fear for a long period of time. The individual is placed in a safe environment, with their fear, in hopes, that eventually the person will overcome their fear, and realize they are safe. Corrective learning then starts to take place (Foa, McLean, Asnaani, …show more content…

The first type is called the graduated form. The graduated form is when a client encounters their phobia slowly. The second form is flooding. Flooding is when the client endures the scariest part of their phobia from the beginning. The graduated therapy first exposed the clients to pictures or shows of their phobia, while on the other hand, the flooding technique put the clients directly into their most feared setting. Graduated therapy’s next step is vivo exposure, which typically happened after the clients third session (Schumacher, Miller, Fehm, Kirschbaum, Fydrich, Ströhle,

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