Exposure and Response Prevention Is Designed to

question 24

Multiple Choice

Exposure and response prevention is designed to

• A) keep patients from having the impulse to perform certain rituals.
• B) have patients carry out their compulsive ritual repeatedly until desire to do so has passed.
• C) have patientscrease the time between their impulse to carry out a ritual and their actually engaging the ritual
• D) keep patients from carrying out compulsive rituals until the desire to do so has passed.

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Definitions:

Bodily Form

Refers to the shape or structure of the human body.

Psychological Disorder

A pattern of behavioral or psychological symptoms that impacts multiple life areas and/or causes significant distress, often classified and diagnosed according to standardized criteria.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency of a learned response to be elicited by stimuli similar to the stimulus originally associated with the response.

Conversion Disorder

A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found.