Inferiority or Even Superiority of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in Phobias?—A Systematic Review and Quantitative Meta-Analysis on Randomized Controlled Trials Specifically Comparing the Efficacy of Virtual Reality Exposure to Gold Standard in vivo Exposure in Agoraphobia, Specific Phobia, and Social Phobia [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Background: Convincing evidence on Virtual Reality (VR) exposure for phobic anxiety disorders has been reported, however, the benchmark and golden standard for phobia treatment is in vivo exposure.
Theresa F. Wechsler +2 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 +2 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,
Peres, Mario F P +6 more
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Activitas Nervosa Superior, 2012 Abstract The practice of air travel holds a unique place in modern human life. With the continually shrinking and interconnected world, full global mobility becomes increasingly important for a fully functional life for continually increasing numbers of people.
Matthew Laker
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Associations of specific phobia and its subtypes with physical diseases: an adult community study. [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2016 Specific phobia is the most prevalent anxiety disorder in the community and is associated with substantial impairment. Comorbidity with physical diseases is assumed and has important implications for etiology, treatment, or prevention of the comorbid ...
Witthauer C +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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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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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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Phobia of the Supernatural: A Distinct but Poorly Recognized Specific Phobia With an Adverse Impact on Daily Living [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018 The psychological and psychiatric literature has seldom appreciated the clinical fact that fears of ghosts and kindred supernatural worries may be a cause of intense discomfort, poor sleep, and socio-occupational impairment.
Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza +1 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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