A therapist helps Rebecca overcome her fear of water by getting her to swim in the family’s backyard pool threetimes a day for two consecutive weeks. The therapist’s approach to helping Rebecca best illustrates:_________.a. stress inoculation training.b. aversive conditioning.c. exposure therapy.d. EMDR.

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The answer is: c. exposure therapy.

Exposure therapy, as its name suggests, is a technique used to threat anxiety disorders. By creating a situation where a patient is directly exposed to anxiety source, it is expected that the patient will gradually overcome anxiety.

In this case, the therapist makes Rebecca swim in a pool so as to reduce her fear of water.