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Information transmission
________- learning about a situation /object being dangerous.
Relaxation
________- used to be practiced more, now often not a part of empirically supported treatment.
Vicarious experience
________- seeing someone else encounter a feared object.
Vicarious experience
seeing someone else encounter a feared object
Information transmission
learning about a situation/object being dangerous
Relaxation
used to be practiced more, now often not a part of empirically supported treatment
Causes of phobias:
Direct experience
Vicarious experience
Information transmission
“Preparedness”
The onset for specific phobia is most often during
childhood
Situational phobia:
fear of specific situations
With situational phobia, the fear centers around
risks of the situation (e.g. Plane crashing), not having a panic attack
The onset of situational phobia is
early to mid 20s
Blood-injection-injury phobia
Decreased heart rate and blood pressure when seeing blood, injections, or injury
With blood injection injury phobia, there’s an inherited
vasovagal response
Diagnostic Criteria: Marked Fear or anxiety about
a specific object or situation
Diagnostic Criteria: Phobic object or situation almost always
provokes immediate fear or anxiety
Diagnostic Criteria: Phobic object/situation is
actively avoided
Diagnostic Criteria: Phobic object/situation out of proportion to
actual danger
Diagnostic Criteria: Lasts more than
6 months
Diagnostic Criteria: Clinically significant
distress
Diagnostic Criteria: Not better explained by
symptoms of another mental disorder
Clinical description: Extreme and irrational
fear of a specific object or situation
Clinical description: Feared situation almost always provokes
anxiety
Clinical description: Significant
impairment or distress
Natural environment phobia:
Heights, storms, water
May cluster together
Animal phobia
Dogs, snakes, mice, insects
May be associated with real dangers
What is the female : male ratio for specific phobia?
4:1
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