When discussing psychological treatments, what is flooding?
What will be an ideal response?
Flooding is a type of exposure therapy where the patient directly faces what he or she fears. Unlike systematic desensitization, where the patients works up to facing what they fear gradually, the patient is immediately "flooded" with a direct presentation of the feared stimulus.
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