Julian seeks professional help for his fear of spiders. In stages, his therapist shows him pictures, movies, and models of spiders; then a real dead spider, a small live spider in a jar, several live spiders in a jar, and finally a live spider loose in the room. At each stage, he made sure that Julian was fully relaxed. This technique is known as ________.

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The technique described in the scenario is systematic desensitization, which involves gradually exposing an individual to their feared stimuli in a safe and controlled environment while maintaining a state of relaxation. The other answer choices, aversive conditioning, stepwise regression, and transactional therapy, do not accurately describe the technique being used.

Julian Seeks Professional Help for His Fear of Spiders