Submitted by sudipa on December 8, 2007

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Systematic Desensitization

Introduction
Systematic desensitization refers to the therapeutic procedure through which the learned link between anxiety and corresponding fear-producing objects or situations can be reduced by means of employing relaxation technique in a sequence of increasing fear-arousing steps. Systematic desensitization, as in contrast with flooding, can be performed in different fragmented but interlinked forms, leading to bring alteration in behavioral process, through the application of counter-conditioning – responsible for reducing the strength of a conditional response (anxiety) in substitution with an incompatible response (relaxation) over the conditional stimulus (fear-provoking...

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