When watching the video Rapid Behavioral Treatment of a Phobia on therapist Lars Urst helping to stop patient Mariam Dum phobia on snake. He showed many steps that really helped her get over her phobia. Lars treated Mariam to go under serious of test facing her fear of snake. At the beginning when he was able to identify Mariam phobia, it helped him to see how deep her phobia towards snake. What Dr. Urst did in identifying her phobia was very important because it can really help him find out how serious her fear is and how much anxiety she have towards snakes. After identifying her phobia, Dr. Urst asked for her level of anxiety between (0-100). By asking her to identify her level of anxiety, it helped him be able to determine how severe her phobia was. This further helped him in determining how far he will have to help her get over her phobia down to 0 from where she is currently at (70).
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In the process of her continually being connected closer to the snake, she is shown to have enforced her psychological improvements. She is present with habituation, where she feels less afraid approaching the snake and contacting it. Her habituation additionally helped advance her towards extinction of snakes and the view she had on fearing snakes. She was able to make these changes by the positive reinforcement she acquired through being vulnerable to the snake. And noticing that her phobia wasn’t a threat, she came to understand that it was a good
In the process of her continually being connected closer to the snake, she is shown to have enforced her psychological improvements. She is present with habituation, where she feels less afraid approaching the snake and contacting it. Her habituation additionally helped advance her towards extinction of snakes and the view she had on fearing snakes. She was able to make these changes by the positive reinforcement she acquired through being vulnerable to the snake. And noticing that her phobia wasn’t a threat, she came to understand that it was a good