Mental health articles

How to conduct exposure therapy Prior to conducting an exposure programme it is important that the client understands what is involved and the reasons for treatment. At this stage it is often useful to use examples from the client’s own life experience to illustrate the principle that ‘the more you do something the easier it […]

principles of conducting exposure-based therapy Implementing exposure Marks summarized the key principles of conducting exposure-based therapy as: live exposure is preferable to ‘fantasy exposure’, although the latter could be used ‘when the real stimuli evoking fear are not readily accessible for live exposure’. Self-exposure (or self-directed exposure) is, generally, of equivalent value to therapist-aided exposure; […]