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ASWB MSW EXAM VOCAB 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Aversion Therapy - ....ANSWER ...-any treatment aimed at reducing the attractiveness of a stimulus or a behavior by repeated parking of it with an averse stimulus. An example is treating alcoholism with Antabuse. Biofeedback - ....ANSWER ...-behavior trying program that teaches a person how to control certain functions such as hear rate, blood pressure, temperature and muscular tension. Biofeedback is often used for ADHD and Anxiety. Extinction - ....ANSWER ...-Witholding a reinforcer that normally follows a behavior. Behavior that fails to produce reinforcement will eventually cease. Flooding - ....ANSWER ...-a treatment procedure in which a client's anxiety is extinguished by prolonged real or imagined exposure to high intensity feared stimuli. In vivo desensitization - ....ANSWER ...-pairing and movement through a hierarchy of anxiety from least to most anxiety provoking situations; takes place in "real" setting. Modeling - ....ANSWER ...-method of instruction that involves an individual demonstrating the behavior to be acquired by a client Rational emotive therapy (RET) - ....ANSWER ...--cognitively-oriented therapy in which the social worker seeks to change client's irrational beliefs by argument, …FOR DTUDY PURPOSES ONLY…©️2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED… 1