Specific Phobia

Question 1

What are phobias

Answer 1

Intense fears of certain stimuli

Question 2

How do people tend to cope with phobias?

Answer 2

They will do their best to avoid them which could lead to agoraphobia

Question 3

How would you describe Specific Phobias using the ABC model?

Answer 3

An alarm that goes off too strongly to a stimuli

Question 4

Treatment for phobias

Answer 4

EXPOSURE THERAPY - Extremely effective

Start of small then increase

Question 5

What is exposure therapy?

Answer 5

therapy that confronts clients with what they fear with the goal of reducing the fear

Ex: Someone afraid of snakes will play with a toy snake

Question 6

What meds to use for phobias

Answer 6

There is no evidence that psychopharmacology helps with specific phobias

Question 7

How prevalent are specific phobias

Answer 7

Very

10% of the population