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Area of Science:

  • Behavioral Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Therapeutic Process Models

Background:

  • Exposure-based treatments are common for anxiety disorders.
  • The underlying mechanisms of change in exposure therapy are not fully understood.
  • Habituation, a decrease in anxiety without avoidance, is a key concept.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To outline the habituation model of the exposure process.
  • To differentiate between therapeutic process and mechanisms of change.
  • To propose conditions necessary for optimal benefit from exposure therapy.

Main Methods:

  • Describing the habituation model of exposure therapy.
  • Emphasizing individually tailored functional analysis.
  • Defining prescribed and proscribed therapist and client behaviors during exposures.

Main Results:

  • The habituation model posits three necessary conditions: fear activation, minimized anxiety-reducing behaviors, and habituation.
  • Prescribed behaviors facilitate habituation by maintaining anxiety.
  • Proscribed behaviors impede habituation by reducing anxiety.

Conclusions:

  • Habituation is best understood as an intermediate treatment outcome informing therapeutic process.
  • The model provides a framework for understanding therapist and client roles in exposure therapy.
  • Further research is needed to validate the tenets of the habituation model.