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The 26 pages that link to Systematic desensitization, each with the reason it gives.

• BehaviorismBroader topic: It is a clinical application of learning principles to reduce conditioned fear.

• Exposure therapyCompared with: It contrasts with exposure approaches that do not require relaxation as a competing response.

• Classical conditioningRelated: It applies competing responses and graded exposure to conditioned anxiety.

• FearRelated: It applies graded exposure to reduce learned fear.

• HabituationRelated: Its graded encounters use repeated exposure to reduce fear and avoidance.

• Exposure and response preventionCompared with: Unlike this method, ERP does not depend on relaxation as the exposure response.

• Virtual reality exposure therapyCompared with: Unlike this approach, virtual reality exposure need not rely on relaxation as its core method.

• PhobiaRelated: It is a historically influential approach to reducing phobic responses.

• ConditioningRelated: It applies counterconditioning to reduce learned anxiety.

• ClaustrophobiaRelated: It offers one structured approach to progressively facing enclosed spaces.

• AcrophobiaCompared with: It is a relaxation-paired alternative to exposure approaches centered on learning without avoidance.

• AquaphobiaRelated: Its graded approach can address water fears without beginning with the most distressing situation.

• NecrophobiaRelated: A graded hierarchy may make difficult death-related cues more manageable.

• AilurophobiaRelated: It offers a structured way to approach cat-related cues in steps.

• CynophobiaRelated: A graded sequence can introduce dog-related cues at a manageable pace.

• OphidiophobiaRelated: This structured exposure approach has been used to treat specific phobias, including animal fears.

• EntomophobiaRelated: It offers a structured, gradual route for approaching insect-related cues.

• GlossophobiaRelated: A speaker can progress from imagining a talk to addressing a live audience.

• HerpetophobiaRelated: It is one approach historically used to reduce animal-related phobic responses.

• AichmophobiaRelated: Its graded approach can be adapted to feared sharp objects.

• AstraphobiaRelated: Its graduated approach has been used for specific fears, including storm-related fear.

• Dental fearRelated: Gradual exposure can help patients approach dental cues without becoming overwhelmed.

• Fear of beesRelated: A graded hierarchy may move from bee images to safe outdoor situations.

• Fear of fishRelated: It offers a stepwise method for reducing fish-related fear.

• GynophobiaRelated: This approach has been used to reduce phobic fear through graduated practice.

• OrnithophobiaRelated: A therapist may use a graded bird hierarchy to approach feared cues step by step.