dr. kilpatrick and dr. connie best use stress-inoculation therapy to help rape victims. in this scene, they demonstrate it with graduate students. what we found in working with crime victims and other trauma victims is they experience anxiety in each of three channels. it can be the physical, the cognitive, or their thought channel, and the behavioral channel. one thing that's true about that, too, is that one effect of crime is to really make people feel pretty helpless and powerless, and so that by giving them an array of coping tools to use, what that does is, it gives them some control back over their own emotions and their own lives. i wanted practical steps. i wanted to know, where do i begin with addressing these reactions, the effects of this sault? um, i didn't have a whole lot of choice anymore because it was-- it affects every aspect of your life. to address the fear and anxiety they may be feeling physically, we do a couple of very basic techniques that we think that people find useful. the first one is actually teaching some deep-breathing exercises. i know