No Phobias about PhoB Activation

Phobias

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programme was condemned. The country was further frustrated by a rejection for limited whaling around its own coastline, while Norway was allowed to hunt 1,000 whales. While governments wring their hands in frustration and annoyance, environmental activists are heading for the Southern Ocean and direct confrontation. Greenpeace, the longest-acting anti-whaling environmental group, said that its...

Assessment of childhood phobias.

Childhood phobias can be successfully treated using a variety of behavioral strategies, provided there has been a psychometrically sound assessment. Measures are also important for the evaluation of treatment efficacy and the testing of hypotheses generated by new ideas and theories of children's phobias. This paper outlines broad-based assessment procedures used in the evaluation of children's...

Management of Specific Phobias

Specific phobias are considered among the most common mental disorders. Besides structured and semistructured interviews various self report measures and behavioral approach tests form an important part of comprehensive assessment. Exposure based therapies (EBT) outperform most nonexposure treatments and are considered the treatment of choice. Various factors affect the efficacy of EBT and newe...

Phobias and their management.

Disabling phobias and phobia like compulsive rituals are surprisingly common in the general population, though only a minority ask for help. Behavioural treatment (exposure) and antidepressants are the most helpful approaches. Most patients can help themselves if they use a self exposure approach systematically under the guidance of a clinician. The method seems well suited for use by general p...