Exposure Therapy Is Really a Form of Counterconditioning

question 46

True/False

Exposure therapy is really a form of counterconditioning.

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Definitions:

Emotion-focused

A coping strategy that involves reducing the emotional distress associated with a situation.

Erikson's Stages

A theory of psychosocial development identifying eight stages through which a healthy developing individual should pass from infancy to late adulthood.

Ego Integrity Versus Despair

According to Erikson, the eighth and final stage of psychosocial development, in which people in late adulthood either achieve a sense of integrity of the self by accepting the lives they have lived, and thus accept death, or yield to despair that their lives cannot be relived.

Approaching Death

The final phase of life leading up to death, often characterized by specific physical, emotional, or spiritual changes.