A client is taught to relax her muscles and imagine visually her feared stimulus, in gradual steps from initially remote associations to direct images

Psychologically confronting the feared stimulus while being relaxed and doing so in a graduated sequence is a therapeutic technique called ________________.

FIll in the blank with correct word.

Answer: systematic desensitization

Psychology

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a. true b. false

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