Talk:Flooding (psychology)

message: Cesar Millan#Critics:
:Dr. Andrew Luescher, Veterinary Behaviorist for the Animal Behavior Clinic at Purdue University says “Millan's techniques are almost exclusively based on two techniques: flooding and positive punishment. In flooding, an animal is exposed to a fear (or aggression) evoking stimulus and prevented from leaving the situation, until it stops reacting. To take a human example: arachnophobia would be treated by locking a person into a closet, releasing hundreds of spiders into that closet, and keeping the door shut until the person stops reacting. The person might be cured by that, but also might be severely disturbed and would have gone through an excessive amount of stress. Flooding has therefore always been considered a risky and cruel method of treatment.” 
Aren't there opinions against flooding humans or is it only bad for animals? --Error 13:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course Wikipedia needs proper sources, but I can only say some words of my personal experience. I've lived for six months in a psychoptherapeutical clinic and there had a very good and trust-based relationship with many other patients. In literally each and every case where flooding was used, the patients stated they felt like RAPED but LIED to the therapists in order to NEVER endure such a procedure again! Thus, the therapists widely believed that the therapy was successful (as the patients throughout stated they now were able to do all the things they before were not), while in fact the patient's were just traumatized even more, and only searched for ways to get out of the clinic safely (ie without further flooding therapy and the like) as soon as possible, of course counter-balanced by grave despair from the perception that now nobody might ever be able to help them anymore (depression through fatalistic non-knowledge of alternatives). --91.14.226.147 (talk) 02:46, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism

message: Is there any difference?  They sound pretty similar.  WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 14:17, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This decision should not be based on casual impressions. In fact, flooding is a subset - a type of - exposure therapy. Flooding should be discussed in the exposure therapy article. Tom Cloyd (talk) 01:34, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from exposure therapy 

message: This article doesn't seem very clear at present; for example I'm not sure what to make of sentences like this one:
:This is a faster yet less efficient and more traumatic method of ridding fears such as of systematic desensitization.
I'd fix that myself but I'm having trouble parsing it; unless it turns out that there are people afraid of systematic desensitization, which seems like a rather abstract thing to be afraid of.  --Kevin Saff (talk) 03:45, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I want to second this very old comment. What does "efficient" even mean in this context? It is mentioned twice that the experience is likely to be "traumatic" for the patients but the goal is to treat the effects of trauma. What the heck? This article reads as if it chaotically mixed psychological jargon with the everyday interpretation of the same words. --Mudd1 (talk) 13:14, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing text. 

message: While exposure therapy and flooding are similar, there are some key differences, particularly in terms of the long-term effectiveness. In addition to causing greater distress to the patient, flooding does not demonstrate as much lasting effectiveness as exposure that proceeds through a fear hierarchy from least aversive to most aversive. Thus, many psychologists agree that exposure therapy should be considered a higher standard of care than flooding.  I believe it is important to keep the two as separate subjects because individuals considering seeking anxiety treatment are more likely to avoid exposure-based strategies if they believe that they will be asked to engage in flooding.
Corneli4350 (talk) 18:47, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similarities and Differences Between Flooding and Exposure Therapy 

message: This article reads like it advocates Flooding as a technique rather than simply describing what it is.  I have nominated it to be checked for neutrality according to Wikipedia standards.nycdi (talk) 03:11, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: Is relaxation techniques apart of flooding or systematic desensitization? From what I have read it is not. Ssierra6 (talk) 16:48, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Criticisms

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