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 +2 more
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A Voxel-Based Morphometric Study of Gray Matter in Specific Phobia [PDF]
Life, 2022 The objective of this study was to analyze the neurostructural abnormalities of brain areas responsible for the acquisition and maintenance of fear in small animal phobia by comparing gray matter volume (GMV) in individuals with phobia and non-fearful ...
Francisco Rivero +6 more
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Spider phobics more easily see a spider in morphed schematic pictures [PDF]
Behavioral and Brain Functions, 2007 Background Individuals with social phobia are more likely to misinterpret ambiguous social situations as more threatening, i.e. they show an interpretive bias. This study investigated whether such a bias also exists in specific phobia.
Partchev Ivailo +6 more
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Cephalalgiaphobia: a possible specific phobia of illness [PDF]
The Journal of Headache and Pain, 2007 Psychiatric comorbidity, mainly anxiety and depression, are common in chronic migraine (CM). Phobias are reported by half of CM patients. Phobic avoidance associated with fear of headache or migraine attack has never been adequately described. We describe 12 migraine patients with particular phobic-avoidant behaviours related to their headache attacks,
Mário Fernando Prieto Peres +6 more
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The moderating role of avoidance behavior on anxiety over time: Is there a difference between social anxiety disorder and specific phobia? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Theories of anxiety disorders and phobias have ascribed a critical role to avoidance behavior in explaining the persistence of fear and anxiety, but knowledge about the role of avoidance behavior in the maintenance of anxiety in social anxiety disorder ...
Myriam Rudaz +4 more
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Psychometric validation of the Specific Phobia Questionnaire in an Australian community sample
Australian Journal of PsychologyObjective The Specific Phobia Questionnaire (SPQ; Fairbrother & Antony, 2012) is a 43-item scale that measures fear and interference towards various specific phobias. This study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the SPQ in an Australian
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Abstract This chapter looks at the section on Specific Phobia in the Anxiety and Related Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-5, Child Version: Parent Interview Schedule (PIS). For each situation in Question 1b that the parent endorsed with a fear rating of 4 or greater, the interviewer should inquire about the child's avoidance behavior.
Samra CK, Torrico TJ, Abdijadid S.
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Cognitive Biases in Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia: A Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Blood-injection-injury (BII) phobia can lead to avoidance of crucial medical procedures and to detrimental health consequences, even among health workers. Yet unlike other specific phobias, BII phobia has been understudied.
Elinor Abado +4 more
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Reducing the meta-emotional problem decreases physiological fear response during exposure in phobics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Anxiety disorders may not only be characterized by specific symptomatology (e.g., tachycardia) in response to the fearful stimulus (primary problem or first-level emotion) but also by the tendency to negatively evaluate oneself for having those symptoms (
Alessandro Couyoumdjian +6 more
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The Childbirth Fear Questionnaire and the Wijma Delivery Expectancy Questionnaire as Screening Tools for Specific Phobia, Fear of Childbirth. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Fairbrother N +3 more
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