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
“Preparedness”
Vicarious experience
Information transmission
“Preparedness”
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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, there’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
May cluster together
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Animal phobia
Dogs, snakes, mice, insects
May be associated with real dangers
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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