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Dr. carmine has a client with obsessive-compulsive disorder. he knows that if he can show his client that nothing bad will happen to her when she is exposed to a fear-inducing trigger, the conditioned association between her anxiety and the stimulus will be broken. to do this, he exposes her to a fearful stimulus and will not allow her to engage in compulsions. dr. carmine is using ________ to treat his client.

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Dr. carmine is using "exposure and response prevention" to treat his client.

Exposure and response prevention includes presentation to the dreaded stimuli (the exposure part of treatment) and concurrent preventive action of a custom, which is ordinarily performed even with the nervousness inciting stimuli or fixation (the response prevention part of handling).

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Dr. Carmine is using exposure and response prevention to treat his client.

Exposure response prevention, most referred to as ERP is the therapy that motivate or encourage people to face their faces and allow thought that are obsessive to occur without “putting them right” or neutralizing them with compulsions.

Further Explanation  

This therapy primarily starts with facing situations and items that causes anxiety, but mostly anxiety that you can tolerate. By confronting the situation for the first few times, such person anxiety will not be high and won’t last long. After which the person will now move on to further difficult exposure exercises.  

However, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder also known as COD refers to an anxiety disorder in which time people have recurring idea or sensation, unwanted thought which make them motivate them to do something repeatedly. Checking on things, hand washing are repetitive behaviors that can affect individual daily activities including interaction with others.

Many people today have repetitive behaviors that might not affect their daily activities. Although many people having Obsessive-compulsive disorder has determined thought and unwanted routines and their behaviors are always very rigid. Not attending to their persistent though causes great distress.  

Approximately 1.2 percent of American has obsessive-compulsive disorder and women are affected than men

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