Which of the following therapies starts with the person imagining their most feared form of contact with the feared object:

Which of the following therapies starts with the person imagining their most feared form of contact with the feared object: Correct Answer Implosive

Implosive therapy

• It starts with the person imagining their most feared form of contact with the feared object, accompanied by vivid verbal descriptions by the therapist.
• The therapist functions as a coach.
• The client is asked to imagine the anxiety arousing stimuli.

Aversive therapy:

• In order to eliminate habits that are undesirable and injurious for health and happiness, aversion therapy is used.
• The therapist arranges things in such a way that the occurrence of maladjustive habits generates painful experiences and to avoid them clients learn to give them up.
• For example, alcohol is paired with an emetic drug (which induces severe nausea and vomiting) so that nausea and vomiting become a conditioned response to alcohol.

Assertive therapy:

• Persons suffering from excessive shyness and having difficulties in interpersonal interactions are subjected to assertive learning.
• This therapy is also based on the principles of learning. 

Biofeedback:

• There are persons who lose mental peace with an accelerated rate of breathing, loss of appetite, and rise in blood pressure at the slightest provocation. In such cases, psychotherapists give biofeedback treatment.
• This technique is based on the interaction between classical and instrumental conditioning.
• In biofeedback, a bodily function (such as heart rate or blood pressure) is monitored and information about the function is fed back to the person to facilitate improved control of the physiological process. 

Hence, implosive therapy starts with the person imagining their most feared form of contact with the feared object.