based on the German version "Gewöhnung/ Habituation/ Konfrontation"
Description
An element of behavioral therapy.
Exposure for posttraumatic stress disorder helps individuals to lessen their trauma-related anxiety by approaching the traumatic memory and situations that they avoid because of the trauma. Accordingly, exposure therapy for PTSD involves repeatedly approaching feared but safe thoughts, images, objects, situations, or activities in order to reduce unrealistic anxiety and other reactions.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3242379/
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