Exposure Therapy (ET)

A behavioural treatment based on the premise that someone’s fears are irrational rather than valid experience-based concerns; it gradually exposes people to feared objects, situations, or activities to help them confront and overcome anxiety or trauma. When used on neurodivergent people who have a hypersensitivity (i.e., forcing a young person to sit in the canteen to ‘help them get used to it’), it causes trauma.