Nonassociative Factors in the Development of Phobias
Ross G. Menzies and Lynne M. Harris
in The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety
This chapter reviews evidence for the nonassociativeaccount of fear acquisition by examining four of the most widely claimedexemplars of nonassociative fear, namely stranger fear, ...
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Public Speaking
Debra A. Hope, Richard G. Heimberg, and Cynthia L. Turk
in Managing Social Anxiety, Workbook: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach (3 edn)
Fear of public speaking is nearly always listed as the number 1 fear experienced by the general public in national surveys in the United States. It has been found that fear of public ...
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Session 8
Michael W. Otto and Mark H. Pollack
in Stopping Anxiety Medication Therapist Guide (2 ed.)
Chapter 10 discusses the eighth SAM program session. This session continues a focus on transforming the meaning of somatic sensations of anxiety and ending the fear-of-fear cycle. The ...
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The Etiology of Childhood Specific Phobia: A Multifactorial Model
Peter Muris and Harald Merckelbach
in The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety
This chapter describes a multifactorial model of the etiology of(childhood) specific phobias. The model attempts to integrate theempirical material that has accumulated over the past years, ...
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String: A Technique of Communication
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 6, 1960-1963
In this essay, Winnicott describes his work with a seven-year-old boy in the Psychology Department of the Paddington Green Children’s Hospital. Winnicott noticed the boy’s preoccupation ...
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Specific Phobias
Marco Del Giudice
in Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
The chapter discusses specific phobias, one of the most common categories of psychopathology. Phobias are exaggerated fears of particular objects of situations, from animals and heights to ...
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Panic and Agoraphobia
Marco Del Giudice
in Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
The chapter discusses panic disorder and agoraphobia. Panic disorder is defined by recurring panic attacks, dramatic episodes in which a surge of autonomic activity is accompanied by ...
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Mary Main, Erik Hesse, and the Berkeley Social Development Study
Robbie Duschinsky
in Cornerstones of Attachment Research
This chapter explores the contributions of Mary Main, Erik Hesse, and the Berkeley longitudinal study. The Berkeley group generated the dominant approach to method and theory for the second ...
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Learning About Your Specific Phobia
Martin M. Antony, Michelle G. Craske, and David H. Barlow
in Mastering Your Fears and Phobias: Workbook (2 ed.)
Chapter 3 outlines strategies for learning about your specific phobia, and uses the forms included to help identify your phobic objects, rate your level of fear, identify and record fearful ...
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Flying Phobias
Martin M. Antony, Michelle G. Craske, and David H. Barlow
in Mastering Your Fears and Phobias: Workbook (2 ed.)
Chapter 13 discusses flying phobias. This type of phobia is defined, along with how common it is. Specific treatment strategies for people who experience fears of flying are presented, ...
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How Do Specific Phobias Develop?
Martin M. Antony, Michelle G. Craske, and David H. Barlow
in Mastering Your Fears and Phobias: Workbook (2 ed.)
Chapter 2 explores how specific phobias develop, why feared situations aren’t random, they specific ways fears are acquired, and the factors that contribute to the maintenance of phobias. ...
Changing Your Thoughts
Martin M. Antony, Michelle G. Craske, and David H. Barlow
in Mastering Your Fears and Phobias: Workbook (2 ed.)
Chapter 5 focuses on cognitive therapy techniques aimed at changing negative thoughts. The client is encouraged to become educated about the feared object or situation, as well as their own ...
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Conditioning: Changing the Meaning and Value of Events
Ian M. Evans
in How and Why People Change: Foundations of Psychological Therapy
Classical (Pavlovian) conditioning provides a useful paradigm for changing stimulus values through association. The phenomena of classical conditioning, such as extinction, provided the ...
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Exposure and Cognitive Restructuring: Observational Fears
Debra A. Hope, Richard G. Heimberg, and Cynthia L. Turk
in Managing Social Anxiety,Therapist Guide: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach (2 ed.)
Chapter 14 corresponds to chapter 10 of the workbook, and discusses observational fears, covering timeline, materials needed, session outline, homework, psychoeducation, pie-chart ...
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Specific Fears and Phobias
Peter D. McLean and Sheila R. Woody
in Anxiety Disorders in Adults: An Evidence-Based Approach to Psychological Treatment
This chapter discusses specific fears and phobias, and provides an informational and theoretical base from which will be expanded into more complex anxiety disorders in later chapters. ...
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The Strategy of Terrorism and the Psychology of Mass-Mediated Fear
James N. Breckenridge and Philip G. Maguen
in Psychology of Terrorism
Chapter 9 outlines the strategy of terrorism and the psychology of mass-mediated fear. It explores fear as a critical element of terrorist strategy, fear that is over and above personal ...
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Exposure and Cognitive Restructuring: First Exposure
Debra A. Hope, Richard G. Heimberg, and Cynthia L. Turk
in Managing Social Anxiety, Therapist Guide: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach (3 edn)
The first in-session exposure is a highlight of this therapy. (It is specified that exposure must occur no later than session 8 of treatment.) This is the first opportunity to fully ...
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For Stepparents
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 5, 1955-1959
If there are two mothers, a real one who has died and a stepmother, a child often gets relief by making one perfect and the other horrid. The real mother and the stepmother start from ...
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Claustrophobia
Martin M. Antony, Michelle G. Craske, and David H. Barlow
in Mastering Your Fears and Phobias: Workbook (2 ed.)
Chapter 9 explores claustrophobia, including a definition, how common it is, strategies that can be used to treat claustrophobia, and refinements that can be made to each step of the ...
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Feared and Avoided Foods
W. Stewart Agras and Robin F. Apple
in Overcoming Eating Disorders: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach for Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-Eating Disorder, Therapist Guide (2 ed.)
Chapter 11 discusses feared or avoided foods, and corresponds to chapters 7 and 8 of the patient workbook. It addresses issues of the patient with BED disorder, and also covers homework. ...
