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Maximizing exposure therapy: An inhibitory learning approach
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Exposure therapy is an effective approach for treating anxiety disorders, although a substantial number of individuals fail to benefit or experience a return of fear after treatment. Research suggests that anxious individuals show deficits in the mechanisms believed to underlie exposure therapy, such as inhibitory learning. Targeting these processes may help improve the efficacy of exposure-based procedures. Although evidence supports an inhibitory learning model of extinction, there has been little discussion of how to implement this model in clinical practice. The primary aim of this paper is to provide examples to clinicians for how to apply this model to optimize exposure therapy with anxious clients, in ways that distinguish it from a ‘fear habituation’ approach and ‘belief disconfirmation’ approach within standard cognitive-behavior therapy. Exposure optimization strategies include 1) expectancy violation, 2) deepened extinction, 3) occasional reinforced extinction, 4) removal of safety signals, 5) variability, 6) retrieval cues, 7) multiple contexts, and 8) affect labeling. Case studies illustrate methods of applying these techniques with a variety of anxiety disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobia, specific phobia, and panic disorder.
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“According to this rationale, both unlearning old catastrophic interpretations and learning a wide range of new associations form the key to therapeutic change.”
From Personalized exposure and experience sampling method feedback versus exposure as usual for obsessive–compulsive disorder: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2024) · cites this paper as [24]
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“However, the mechanisms of change in exposure therapy are still not well understood, especially in exposure therapy for EDs”
From Are within- and between-session changes in distress associated with treatment outcomes? Findings from two clinical trials of exposure for eating disorders (2024) · cites this paper as Craske et al., 2014
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“Emotional states are strong retrieval cues, and variation in fear may increase the salience of the association between a previously feared object or situation and a lack of extreme negative consequences (Bjork & Bjork, 1992, 2006; Craske et al., 2014).”
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“Variability in the exposure hierarchy may also enhance expectancy violation, which is proposed to maximize exposure therapy outcomes (Craske et al., 2014).”
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“Instead of starting exposure with the premise of random progression through the exposure hierarchy, variability might be introduced after a few graded exposures of lower difficulty once the client has gained confidence in his or her ability to stay in the distressing situation (Craske et al., 2014).”
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“SUDS are not typically part of the inhibitory learning model, as there is no emphasis on habituation (Craske et al., 2014).”
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“While the precise mechanisms supporting novelty-facilitated extinction remain unclear, the strategic incorporation of novelty into extinction may leverage effects of surprise that are central to inhibitory learning (1,3).”
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“Exposure is hypothesized to be effective when the new association becomes stronger than the old association.”
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“Furthermore, the meta-analyses primarily used data from same-day or next-day uninstructed threat extinction training with only one session, limiting the generalizability of the results to real-world exposure-based therapies (i.e., which typically involve instructions about assessing the likelihood of aversive events and often comprise more than one session) (8).”
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“To this end, it is important to detect patients’ specific expectancies and to record the belief in these expectancies before exposure starts. This technique can help to reduce catastrophic thinking (Craske et al., 2014; Schyns et al., 2016; Schyns, Roefs, et al., 2018; Schyns, van den Akker, Roefs, Hilberath & Jansen, 2018).”
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“One of the main strengths of the current study is that the treatment intervention (behavioral experiments) and treatment target (intolerance of uncertainty) are solidly grounded in the anxiety disorders literature.”
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“This exposure generates new learning of safety-based associations that inhibit former fear response associations to the feared stimulus [77, 78, 118], thereby either extinguishing the fear response or enabling a level of fear tolerance that reduces anxious distress.”
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“Two factors are generally considered unique to CBT, “exposure” and “coping efficacy”, or skill building [77, 78].”
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“These findings add to the growing literature suggesting that, instead, change can occur during exposure therapy without within-session reduction in distress via inhibitory learning processes (Craske et al., 2014; Essayli et al., 2023).”
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“The inhibitory learning model is applicable to a wide spectrum of anxiety content.”
From Overcoming Clinician Technophobia: What We Learned from Our Mass Exposure to Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) · cites this paper as Craske et al., 2014
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“The degree to which these exposures more closely replicate the avoided experience (e.g., provoking a strong sensation) and create an expectancy violation (i.e., helping the individual to learn that outcomes differ from expectations), the more effective the interoceptive exposure.”
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“One hypothesis whereby interoceptive exposure treatments exert their influence is via inhibitory learning (Craske, Treanor, Conway, Zbozinek, & Vervliet, 2014).”
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“According to this model, exposures that intentionally provoke interoceptive sensations should be designed to disconfirm underlying expectancies of negative outcomes (e.g., I can’t handle pain; Craske et al., 2014).”
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“Context and stimulus variability appear to be key in the generalization of learning, which allows clients to apply what they have learned to new contexts and new stimuli that were not encountered during exposure therapy (Craske et al., 2014; Kircanski et al., 2012).”
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“Increasing variability is one potential modification to the delivery of exposure therapy that could maximize inhibitory learning (Craske, Treanor, Conway, Zbozinek, & Vervliet, 2014).”
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“For example, exposure therapy works to lessen negative affect through a mechanism principal to the defensive system – fear extinction (Craske, Treanor, Conway, Zbozinek, & Vervliet, 2014).”
From Examining Positive and Negative Affect as Outcomes and Moderators of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder. (2019) · cites this paper as Craske, Treanor, Conway, Zbozinek, & Vervliet, 2014
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“Difficulty learning about safety via extinction can arise in anxiety disorders and following trauma, and principles of extinction form the basis of exposure-based therapies (1).”
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“Difficulty learning about safety via extinction can arise in anxiety disorders and following trauma, and principles of extinction form the basis of exposure-based therapies (1).”
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“Instead, exposure therapy may be best optimized through strategies that enhance inhibitory learning, such as expectancy violation and variability in exposure (1).”
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“Importantly, conceptualizations of the mechanisms supporting the effects of exposure therapy have increasingly shifted to emphasize inhibitory learning.”
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“While habituation likely plays a role in extinction and while fear often decreases over the course of an exposure, the extent to which fear declines does not predict clinical outcomes (1).”
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“Several studies have shown that learning is context-dependent and that exposure in multiple contexts appears to counteract a return of fear [6, 24].”
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“A promising intervention that aims at breaking such self-reinforcing circles of anxiety and safety behaviours is exposure therapy [30, 33, 34].”
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“Recent research suggests that exposure therapy should be based on inhibitory learning principles, such as expectancy violation [30, 45].”
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“behavioral experiments, which require clients to formulate specific predictions and to compare their predictions to actual outcomes following an exposure-type situation, are directly in line with contemporary learning theories of fear reduction (e.g., Craske et al., 2014).”
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“IU-CBT is also influenced by current approaches to exposure that are based on findings that habituation within and between sessions is not necessary in order to achieve functional improvement (Craske et al., 2008;Craske, Treanor, Conway, Zbozinek, & Vervliet, 2014;Jacoby & Abramowitz, 2016).”
From Intolerance of Uncertainty–Focused Treatment for Adolescents With Excessive Worry: A Pilot Feasibility Study (2020) · cites this paper as Craske et al., 2014
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“These studies are in line with the work carried out by Craske et al. [81], focused on optimizing exposure therapy based on the inhibitory learning approach, because VR/AR can maximize some strategies reported by Craske.”
From In Vivo versus augmented reality exposure in the treatment of small animal phobia: A randomized controlled trial (2016) · cites this paper as Craske et al. [81]
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“Consolidation of this “safety” learning is essential for the success of exposure therapy (Craske et al., 2014).”
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“Within an inhibitory learning framework of understanding (Craske et al., 2014), the new learning of safety will constrain and dampen the old learning that others intend harm.”
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“Exposure therapy, which involves repeatedly exposing oneself to stimuli that cause fear, is an integral part of cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders (Craske et al., 2014).”
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“Craske, Treanor, Conway, Zbozinek, and Vervliet (2014) suggest that exposure therapy works through inhibitory learning, indicating that expectancy violation (and not fear decrease) should be its main objective.”
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“Whereas some presentations of ARFID are clearly anxiety‐driven (e.g., specific phobia of choking/vomiting), and appear to suit Craske's et al. (Craske et al., 2014) theory quite well, not all presentations appear to be primarily characterized by anxiety.”
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“Nowadays it is believed that exposure in vivo sets off a process of inhibition in which the association of the conditioned stimulus (CS) (social situations) and the feared unconditioned stimulus (US) (humiliation) is inhibited by the forming of new associations around the CS, of which the association with ‘no-US’ (no rejection) is probably the most important [34].”
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“behavioral experiments, which require clients to formulate specific predictions and to compare their predictions to actual outcomes following an exposure-type situation, are directly in line with contemporary learning theories of fear reduction (e.g., Craske et al., 2014).”
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“Tolerance of exposure, with inhibition of an associated avoidance response, is considered the key element in the cognitive behavioral therapy of anxiety disorders [77, 78].”
From A Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) study of medication and CBT sequencing in the treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders (2021) · cites this paper as [78]
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“Practicing these skills in different fear-inducing contexts supports generalization of inhibitory learning and stronger extinction of fear responses [78].”
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“CBT, focusing on exposure to feared cues to promote extinction learning (Craske, Treanor, Conway, Zbozinek, & Vervliet, 2014), continues to be the most widely used and most strongly validated psychotherapeutic treatment for both youth and adult anxiety disorders (Barry, Yeung, & Lau, 2018;Kodal et al., 2018).”
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“Existing interventions for anxiety and depression emphasize negative affect reduction as the central treatment goal.”
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“The presumed mechanisms of ERP result from the process of habituation (Ponniah et al. 2013) or through inhibitory learning (Craske et al. 2014).”
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“The inhibitory learning model (ILM; Craske, 2014) posits that exposure does not, as once assumed, remove a fear association between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and an unconditioned stimulus (US).”
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“Inhibitory learning is postulated to be the central principle that carries exposure success (Craske et al., 2014).”
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“This is supported by prior treatment research, which has shown use of exposure techniques during psychological treatment to be efficacious for PD [30,31] and that treatment gains are typically maintained over time [22].”
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“Recent advances in the conceptualization of exposure therapy posit inhibitory learning as a more parsimonious theory to explain treatment effects and failure and advocate inhibitory learning techniques to optimize treatment effects among patients [27-28].”
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“…(e.g., “The world is dangerous”; Foa & McLean, 2016) and expectancy violation (e.g., “If I confront my traumatic memory, I will lose control”; Craske, Treanor, Conway, Zbozinek, & Vervliet, 2014) are being increasingly recognized as critical mediators of PTSD symptom change during exposure…”
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“, 2001), anxiety disorders more generally (Mineka & Zinbarg, 2006) and models of learning through exposure therapy (Craske et al., 2014).”
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“Exposure therapy is designed based on disrupting the expectation of an association between exposure to anxiety resources and aversive outcomes (Craske et al., 2014).”
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“EXP, a cognitive-behavioral intervention, widely applied to a variety of anxiety disorders (13) was compared with PPT, the recommended physical therapy treatment according to the Dutch Guidelines for CRPS-I at the onset of the trial.”
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“Exposure is a prototypical technique to reduce aversive emotional states by breaking the pattern of avoidance and fear through confrontation (Craske et al., 2014).”
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“Extinction is a critical component to the ef fi cacy of exposure therapy for PTSD, which exposes the patient to trauma-related memories and/or cues both in the clinic and in vivo (Craske et al. 2014).”
BackgroundInteroceptive Exposure: An Overlooked Modality in the Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of OCD
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“Following inhibitory learning via ERP, a feared stimulus—such as a thought, contaminated object, or other obsessional cue—is then associated with both its original (fear-based) meaning and its new inhibitory (safety-based) meaning.”
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“…exposure to multiple feared stimuli during extinction/ exposure therapy might enhance variability in emotional responding and sustain arousal and engagement during exposure sessions which may enhance extinction learning (e.g., Craske et al., 2014; Waters, Potter, Jamesion, Bradley, & Mogg, 2015).”
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“Behavioral interventions further challenge maladaptive beliefs and cognitions by empirically testing them [51].”
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“Exposure techniques call for individuals to gradually confront fear-provoking stimuli to acquire new safety learning that contradicts their anxious beliefs about the dangerousness and intolerability of feared situations (Abramowitz et al., 2019; Craske et al., 2014; Rauch et al., 2012).”
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“Among the techniques of CBT, exposure therapy is often used to treat a variety of anxiety disorders [6,7].”
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“From an extinction learning perspective, expectancy violations occur when a conditioned feared stimulus that has been previously associated with an unconditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus (Craske et al., 2008; Craske et al., 2014).”
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“limitation in the learning process of extinction is the return of the conditioned response, such as fear, after the passing of time.(21) The current study did not examine this effect, which is believed to result from competing learned effects and deficits in inhibitory learning and more specifically deficits in the ne…”
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“These cognitive changes might be caused by experiences of expectation violation, which has been shown to be a crucial mechanism of change in exposure therapy (Craske et al., 2014).”
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“…stimulus (CS) – unconditioned stimulus (US) association learned during fear conditioning is not erased during extinction, but rather is left intact as new, secondary inhibitory learning about the CS-US develops – specifically, that the CS no longer predicts the US” (Craske et al., 2014, p. 11).”
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“It is therefore proposed that the ‘success’ of exposure is reflected by effective consolidation, retrievability and generalisability of new inhibitory learning assessed during follow-up, rather than the degree of fear reduction that occurs between and within exposure sessions (Craske et al. 2014).”
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“Based on the inhibitory learning model, patients could create new associations between the conditioned stimuli and the response to override the existing maladaptive association [65], such as replacing them with safety, self-control, and self-efficacy.”
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- Authors
- Craske, M. G., Treanor, M., Conway, C. C., Zbozinek, T., & Vervliet, B.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- KU Leuven (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Craske, Michelle G.
- Venue
- Behaviour Research and Therapy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-07
- Volume
- 58
- Pages
- 10-23
- ISSN
- 0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4114726
- OpenAlex
- W2057906075
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- 0d5de00a9991db7a0f004d29efca3e1c6f367c0f
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- 139.66
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- journal article
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- en
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- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R34MH101359, R21MH081299, R01MH065651)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- exposure therapy, inhibitory learning, extinction learning, anxiety disorders, treatment optimization, expectancy violation, safety signals, retrieval cues, affect labeling, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobia, panic disorder
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Anxiety Disorders, Extinction, Psychological, Female, Humans, Implosive Therapy, Inhibition, Psychological, Learning, Male
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