An Overview of Phobia

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Anxiety disordersBy Kannan K


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A specific phobiais an

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Significantly interferes with onesability to function.

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___is necessary to meet the criteria for aphobia.

Most persons with specific phobias recognize

that the fears are unreasonable and irrational-but try to escape anyway.


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The_____________________________________________________________________________________________ People with phobias often adapt their lives and

simply work around it.

The physical symptoms of this type of anxietyare:

Increased heart rate Blood pressure Irregular breathing patterns, Thoughts of disaster.


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To qualify for a diagnosis of phobicdisorders is that the fear must be___________________________________________________

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Unlike generalized anxiety, the anxiety is

focused on some specific object or situation. ___________________________________________

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DSM IV first defined phobias as aclassifiable disorder in 1994

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1. _________________________________________

Unreasonable fear/avoidance ofexposure to

_____________________________________________________________________. These are typically thepeople who faint at the sight of evena drop of blood (Barlow et al.,1995).

People with this type of phobia

experience different physiologicalreactions than other phobias.

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This type of phobia runs in families and has astrong genetic component.

This is likely because people who inherit thisphobia

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The average age of onset for this type of phobia is9.


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Example- If you fear deep water, youare likely to also fear storms

The age of onset for this type ofphobia is age ______.


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Situational phobias tend to emerge in

the early to____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

People with situational phobias neverexperience a panic attack outside thecontext of their phobic object/situation.

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4. _________________________________________________

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particularly dogs, snakes, insects and mice

The age of onset is 7, like naturalenvironmental phobias.

Animal Phobias


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The APA reports that in any given year,_____________________________________________

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They are the most common psychiatric illnessamong

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The sex ratio for specific phobias is _______________________________________________________________


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Once a phobia develops,

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treatment very important.

With proper treatment, the vast

majority of phobia patients cancompletely overcome fears and livesymptom-free.


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The treatment for phobias is agreed on by most ofthe psychological community.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ exercises.

This should be done under professionalsupervision, so the patients are not exposed to toomuch at once, which could lead to escape and thiswould only

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New developments in treatment make it possibleto treat many specific phobias in an intensive, oneday session participating in exposure exerciseswith the phobia/situation.


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The results are very interesting because in these

cases not only does the phobia disappear but thetendency to experience the

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It is now clear, based on brain imaging that thesetreatments ______________________________

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It was once believed that phobias

developed after a traumaticevent._________________________________________________________________

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Traumatic experiences can result inphobic behavior, developed by____________________________________________ where danger results inan alarm response.

Example- many people who havechoking phobias have experiencedchoking at some time.


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Vicarious experience-

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Seeing someone else have a traumaticexperience is enough to instill a phobia in thewatcher.

3. _______________________________________________ can sometimes produce a phobia, thisis referred to as information transmission.


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31% of first-degree relatives of people with specificphobias also had a phobia, compared to only 11%

of first relatives of normal controls.

This research suggests that relatives werelikely to have that exact type of phobia

(Frye et al. , 1990).


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(OCD)- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

(PTSD)-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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