Systematic Desensitization Essay

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Systematic Desensitization aims to remove the fear response of a phobia, and replace it with a relaxation response to the conditional stimulus gradually using counter conditioning.
The articles above talks about the various ways Systematic Desensitization can be helpful. It can be used to treat various phobias neurosis by working on the different anxiety levels as per the established hierarchy of fear. It showed to be helpful for patients with psychotic disorders to cure their symptoms of phobia that are not psychotic illness related. Children (normal or disabled) also seemed to be benefitted with a little caution involved in the process. Specific phobias like non-accidental phobias were also helped by the process of Hypnosis aided Systematic Desensitization. It’s really easy to couple Systematic Desensitization with other therapy techniques to help treat comorbid diseases or just to facilitate a better therapeutic process or environment. But the question arises that is its use limited to just phobia and anxiety disorders?
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The relaxation technique varied with each article, also Hypnotic aided systematic desensitization helped achieve a more relaxed and confident stage in one of the article. For calculations methods like The Rorschach Inkblot Test was conducted using Beck's method to confirm personality characteristics and the Mean scores obtained on different variables were calculated using Chi Square test. Results showed that the treated and untreated group differ significantly on R, W, D, rare details, Movement, CSum, Vista, Human, Human detail, Good form, Animal, Popular, Lambda, T/IR and Rejection of cards etc. The studies were effectively made to point out the application of Systematic