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Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2005
This article describes specific phobia of childhood and its clinical presentation, discusses issues related to the differential diagnosis of specific phobia, considers the issue of comorbidity among phobic and anxiety disorders and developmental trends in the manifestation of fears, summarizes the epidemiology, causes, and course of specific phobia ...
Wendy K, Silverman, Jacqueline, Moreno
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This article describes specific phobia of childhood and its clinical presentation, discusses issues related to the differential diagnosis of specific phobia, considers the issue of comorbidity among phobic and anxiety disorders and developmental trends in the manifestation of fears, summarizes the epidemiology, causes, and course of specific phobia ...
Wendy K, Silverman, Jacqueline, Moreno
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Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2009
Exposure based treatments in which patients are systematically confronted with their feared objects of situations are highly effective in the treatment of specific phobias and produce stable improvement both in reported fear and behavioral avoidance. Exposure in reality is more effective in most cases than exposure in sensu.
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Exposure based treatments in which patients are systematically confronted with their feared objects of situations are highly effective in the treatment of specific phobias and produce stable improvement both in reported fear and behavioral avoidance. Exposure in reality is more effective in most cases than exposure in sensu.
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2023
Specific fears are a common and normal experience in the life of children and adolescents. In a substantial minority of youths, the fear for a particular stimulus or situation becomes so intense and severe that it starts to interfere with daily functioning, and in these cases the diagnosis of a specific phobia is warranted.
Muris, Peter, Ollendick, Thomas H.
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Specific fears are a common and normal experience in the life of children and adolescents. In a substantial minority of youths, the fear for a particular stimulus or situation becomes so intense and severe that it starts to interfere with daily functioning, and in these cases the diagnosis of a specific phobia is warranted.
Muris, Peter, Ollendick, Thomas H.
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Functional neuroimaging in specific phobia
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 2012Specific phobias (SPs) are common, with lifetime prevalence estimates of 10%. Our current understanding of their pathophysiology owes much to neuroimaging studies, which enabled us to construct increasingly efficient models of the underlying neurocircuitry.
DEL CASALE, ANTONIO +10 more
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2017
DSM-defined specific phobia is characterized by the presence of a significant level of anxiety provoked by exposure to a specific object or situation, which often leads to avoidance behaviour. In DSM-IV, several diagnostic criteria are used.
Wardenaar, Klaas +3 more
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DSM-defined specific phobia is characterized by the presence of a significant level of anxiety provoked by exposure to a specific object or situation, which often leads to avoidance behaviour. In DSM-IV, several diagnostic criteria are used.
Wardenaar, Klaas +3 more
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Treatment of specific phobia in adults
Clinical Psychology Review, 2007This is a comprehensive review of treatment studies in specific phobia. Acute and long-term efficacy studies of in vivo exposure, virtual reality, cognitive therapy and other treatments from 1960 to 2005 were retrieved from computer search engines. Although specific phobia is a chronic illness and animal extinction studies suggest that relapse is a ...
Abby J. Fyer +2 more
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Visual avoidance in specific phobia
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1999Cognitive models of anxiety postulate that fear and anxiety serve as programs for avoidance of threat-relevant stimuli. We hypothesized that exposure to phobia-relevant stimuli would lead to visual avoidance in specific phobics. Spider phobic, blood-injection-injury phobic, and nonphobic participants were asked to view spider, injection, and neutral ...
Thomas C. Lee +3 more
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Specific phobia of illness in the community
General Hospital Psychiatry, 2002This study evaluated the prevalence, risk factors and morbidity associated with specific phobia of illness. Subjects were from a random, community telephone survey of 500 persons age 40 to 65 who lived in Johnson County, Iowa, USA. Forty-three subjects reported that illness fears substantially bothered them personally or affected their medical care ...
Richard W. Malis +3 more
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British Journal of Psychiatry, 1998
BackgroundData on eight specific fears representing DSM–III–R simple phobia were analysed to evaluate: (a) their prevalence and (b) the validity of subtypes of specific phobia defined by DSM–IV.MethodA modified version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview was administered to a probability sample of 8098 community respondents.
George C. Curtis +4 more
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BackgroundData on eight specific fears representing DSM–III–R simple phobia were analysed to evaluate: (a) their prevalence and (b) the validity of subtypes of specific phobia defined by DSM–IV.MethodA modified version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview was administered to a probability sample of 8098 community respondents.
George C. Curtis +4 more
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Specific Phobia – Fear of Cockroaches [PDF]
NEURI 2015, 5th Student Congress of Neuroscience, 2015 Specific phobias are considered the most common phobias and the most common psychiatric disorder amongst woman (in men right behind of using psychoactive drugs). Katsaridaphobia is constant and irrational fear of cockroaches. Most people feel uneasy when they are near cockroaches but people with katsaridaphobia are having a feeling of intense fear ...
Dunja Degmečić +2 more
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