... of treatment. Systematic desensitisation introduces you to what you fear gradually, flooding is a more vigorous approach and aversive treatment pars us something you fear with something you like. One strength of this model is that it is scientific therefore producing useful data. It is also seen as a pragmatic approach as it doesn't involve delving into your past and learning about yourself, making it easy treatment. However critics would say that this may lead to "symptom substitution". With reference to symptoms, Eysenck (1960) thought it was sufficient to remove a persons symps at it doesn't find the cause of the real problem, therefore wekaneing the model.The approach doesn't criticise people for being psychologically unwell as it simply describes behaviour as being maladaptive and learnt, but this blurs the distinction between what is meant by normal or abnormal. Another weakness of this model is that it is described as ...

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