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Specific phobias [PDF]

The Lancet Psychiatry, 2018
Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent mental disorders, but the subcategory of specific phobias has not been well studied. Phobias involve both fear and avoidance. For people who have specific phobias, avoidance can reduce the constancy and severity of distress and impairment.
William W, Eaton, O Joseph, Bienvenu, Beyon, Miloyan   +2 more
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combined Delivery of CuO Nanoparticles and HIF‐1α Inhibitor Acriflavine for Synergistic Local Treatment of Glioblastoma

Advanced NanoBiomed Research, EarlyView.
Encapsulated acriflavine (ACF) and copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) are coreleased from coaxial nanofibers, producing synergistic antiglioblastoma multiforme effects. ACF suppresses the hypoxia‐inducible factor 1α pathway related to many downstream factors for tumor growth, while CuO NPs generate reactive oxygen species that assist cuproptosis ...
Daewoo Han, Iris S. Weitz, Hasan Slika, Betty Tyler, Andrew J. Steckl   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cost and effectiveness of one session treatment (OST) for children and young people with specific phobias compared to multi-session cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT): results from a randomised controlled trial

BMC Psychiatry, 2022
Background In the UK, around 93,000 (0.8%) children and young people (CYP) are experiencing specific phobias that have a substantial impact on daily life.
Han-I. Wang, Barry Wright, Lucy Tindall, Cindy Cooper, Katie Biggs, Ellen Lee, M. Dawn Teare, Lina Gega, Alexander J. Scott, Emily Hayward, Kiera Solaiman, Thompson Davis, Dean McMillan, Simon Gilbody, Steve Parrott   +14 more
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Traumatic Experiences, Psychological Distress and Suicide‐Related Behaviors in Autistic Adults

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Autistic adults have increased risks of trauma, suicide, and poor mental health compared to non‐autistic adults, with 1 in 4 autistic adults attempting suicide. We administered an anonymized, self‐report survey to 424 autistic and 345 non‐autistic adults through a convenience sampling framework.
T. A. Chikaura, E. Weir, S. Griffiths, T. Procyshyn, M. Pelton, C. Allison, H. Hodges, S. R. White, T. Ford, S. Baron‐Cohen   +9 more
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Risk Factors and Comorbidity in Childhood Specific Phobias

Bilişsel Davranışçı Psikoterapi ve Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2019
This study aims to investigate possible risk factors associated with specific phobias in children and comorbid mental disorders. Patients between 6-18 years of age who had presented to the child psychiatry outpatient clinic at Bezmialem Vakif University ...
Abdurrahman Cahid Orengul, Yavuz Meral, Vahdet Gormez   +2 more
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Exploring Alexithymia, Uncertainty, Anxious Arousal, and Social Anxiety as Mediators of the Relationship Between Sensory Processing Differences and Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Autistic Adults

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRB) are associated with sensory processing (SP) differences for autistic people, and are thought to be a coping strategy to help manage the sensory environment. Previous work shows that, for autistic people, alexithymia, intolerance of uncertainty (IU), and anxiety mediate the relationship between SP ...
Heather L. Moore, Samuel Brice, Natalya Spraggon, Barry Ingham, Mark Freeston, Jeremy R. Parr, Jacqui Rodgers   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Instruments for assessing social phobias in infants and adolescents in the Portuguese language

Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
The diagnosis of social phobia is the most prevalent of the anxiety disorders. Some diagnostic evaluation tools have been validated in Brazil targeting more precise and specific evaluations for each age group.
Gabriel José Chittó Gauer, Cristine Boaz, Prisla Ücker Calvetti, Leonardo Machado da Silva   +3 more
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Feasibility Study of a Novel App‐Based Anxiety Intervention for Autistic People

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At least 50% of autistic people experience clinically relevant anxiety symptoms. However, reasons for elevated rates of anxiety in autism remain poorly understood and there is a high unmet need for novel and adapted therapies for anxiety that are accessible to autistic people.
Bethany Oakley, Charlotte A. Boatman, Saffron Baldoza, Amy Hearn, Colin Larkworthy, Rachel Kent, Ann Ozsivadjian, Sophie Doswell, Antonia Dittner, Amanda Roestorf, Dhara Rawal, Ben Carter, Emily Simonoff, The Molehill Mountain Advisory Group, Saffron Baldoza, Amy Hearn, Colin Larkworthy, Adrian Judd, Marianne Savage   +18 more
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Incidence of Phobias in Iranian Psychiatric Patients [PDF]

Acta Medica Iranica, 1975
During 1972 a study was undertaken in Roozbeh Mental Hospital of Tehran University to investigate the prevalence of phobias among the patients suffering from one type or another ofmental disorders. It was found that about 10 percent of the total patients
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