case study but is not appropriate for treatment of disorders such as depression due to not addressing the underlying chemical imbalance within the brain shown to be at part responsible for this disorder. The effectiveness and reliability of systematic desensitisation is shown to be successful in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder in around sixty percent of cases as found by (Comer, 2002); but unsuccessful in cases of agoraphobia as found by Craske & Barlow (1993) with a fifty percent relapse rate occurring within six months. Nomothetic attribution cannot be given to this treatment due to differing results in each case and the ethical considerations of this treatment are questionable due to the requirement of confronting the patient with the object of fear which could make the anxiety
case study but is not appropriate for treatment of disorders such as depression due to not addressing the underlying chemical imbalance within the brain shown to be at part responsible for this disorder. The effectiveness and reliability of systematic desensitisation is shown to be successful in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder in around sixty percent of cases as found by (Comer, 2002); but unsuccessful in cases of agoraphobia as found by Craske & Barlow (1993) with a fifty percent relapse rate occurring within six months. Nomothetic attribution cannot be given to this treatment due to differing results in each case and the ethical considerations of this treatment are questionable due to the requirement of confronting the patient with the object of fear which could make the anxiety