Specific Phobias

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Information transmission

________- learning about a situation /object being dangerous.

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Relaxation

________- used to be practiced more, now often not a part of empirically supported treatment.

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Vicarious experience

________- seeing someone else encounter a feared object.

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Vicarious experience

seeing someone else encounter a feared object

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Information transmission

learning about a situation/object being dangerous

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Relaxation

used to be practiced more, now often not a part of empirically supported treatment

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Causes of phobias:

Direct experience

Vicarious experience

Information transmission

ā€œPreparednessā€

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The onset for specific phobia is most often during

childhood

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Situational phobia:

fear of specific situations

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With situational phobia, the fear centers around

risks of the situation (e.g. Plane crashing), not having a panic attack

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The onset of situational phobia is

early to mid 20s

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Blood-injection-injury phobia

Decreased heart rate and blood pressure when seeing blood, injections, or injury

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With blood injection injury phobia, thereā€™s an inherited

vasovagal response

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Diagnostic Criteria: Marked Fear or anxiety about

a specific object or situation

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Diagnostic Criteria: Phobic object or situation almost always

provokes immediate fear or anxiety

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Diagnostic Criteria: Phobic object/situation is

actively avoided

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Diagnostic Criteria: Phobic object/situation out of proportion to

actual danger

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Diagnostic Criteria: Lasts more than

6 months

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Diagnostic Criteria: Clinically significant

distress

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Diagnostic Criteria: Not better explained by

symptoms of another mental disorder

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Clinical description: Extreme and irrational

fear of a specific object or situation

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Clinical description: Feared situation almost always provokes

anxiety

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Clinical description: Significant

impairment or distress

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Natural environment phobia:

Heights, storms, water

May cluster together

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Animal phobia

Dogs, snakes, mice, insects

May be associated with real dangers

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What is the female : male ratio for specific phobia?

4:1

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