A Patient Arrives in Your Office with a Severe Fear

question 24

Multiple Choice

A patient arrives in your office with a severe fear of spiders.You treat this patient by gradually introducing her to snake images, snake toys and, eventually, live snakes in order to show her that nothing bad happens in the presence of these objects.You are using the therapeutic technique called

• A)cognitive therapy
• B)systematic desensitisation
• C)operant conditioning
• D)multidimensional therapy

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