Imagine you are working with a client who has a phobia of flying on an airplane. Create a basic fear hierarchy for this patient and explain how you would proceed with using systematic desensitization technique to help the patient decrease their anxiety about flying.

Responding to the discussion questions.
1. Imagine you are working with a client who has a phobia of flying on an airplane. Create a basic fear hierarchy for this patient and explain how you would proceed with using systematic desensitization technique to help the patient decrease their anxiety about flying.
2. Explain the behavioral concept of flooding. What are the pros and cons of using flooding exposure versus systematic desensitization?
3. If you were working with a depressed client, how can behavior activation help this client?
4. Explain Classical Conditioning and how it is related to the explanation of phobias?
5. Explain Operant Conditioning and how negative reinforcement is related to an anxious person’s avoidance behavior (hint: negative reinforcement means that there is the removal of an aversive stimulus such as the fear response).
Assignment 2: Discussion Question
Completing these discussion questions.

1. Ellis describes the ABCDE model. Identify what these letters stand for and explain the goal of his model of therapy (2 paragraphs)

2. Explain each of the following factors that help to detect irrational thoughts (as a therapist you may want to give a client a handout with these thinking errors so they notice when they make them).
a. overgeneralization
b. distortions

c. catastrophizing

d. fortune telling
e. Socratic questioning
f. Problem solving
g. Cognitive restructuring
h. De-catastrophizing
i. Modeling
j. cognitive triad
k. core belief
l. schema