If a therapist gives Henry, who is suffering from alcoholism, a drink laced with a nausea-inducing drug so that he will become ill after drinking the alcohol, the therapist is using

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The therapist is using aversive conditioning, which involves pairing a negative stimulus with a behavior to discourage that behavior. In this case, the nausea-inducing drug is the negative stimulus being paired with the behavior of drinking alcohol in order to discourage Henry from drinking in the future. Systematic desensitization involves gradually exposing a person to a feared object or situation while teaching them to relax. Flooding involves exposing a person to an intense version of the feared object or situation all at once. Implosion therapy is a specific form of flooding that involves imagining an exaggerated version of the feared situation. None of these techniques involve using a negative stimulus to discourage a behavior.

If a Therapist Gives Henry, Who Is Suffering from Alcoholism