Exposure therapy is a treatment for anxiety and other disorders that involves someone repeatedly facing their fears. Yet many people are reluctant to try it. Here's why.
There are many ways to deliver exposure therapy, and it can be done flexibly depending on the person’s needs and preferences. For example, you can approach feared situations gradually in a systematic manner over several months or you can jump in the deep end of the pool all at once and treat some fears over a weekend. People can approach their fears through their, virtual reality, and in real life.
Yet many people, including clinicians, are still hesitant to try exposure therapy. Negative attitudes toward exposure therapy have been found to inversely correlate with knowledge about the treatment . In other words, unfamiliarity and misinformation seem to explain some peoples’ hesitancy toward exposure, rather than the treatment itself.
Some people misunderstand exposure as unethical or punishing because of the incorrect idea that it forces people into distressing or dangerous situations . In reality, a therapist would NEVER force someone to do something. Exposure is only helpful when the person chooses to do it. This choice can be really empowering. Moreover, I was taught that a therapist never asks someone to do something that they themselves would not do.
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