1.3. Phobia

Question 1

is an illogical intense, persistent fear of a specific object or social situation that causes extreme distress and interferes with normal life functioning.

Answer 1

Phobia

Question 2

Three Categories of Phobia

Answer 2

1. Agoraphobia
2. Specific Phobia
3. Social Anxiety or Phobia

Question 3

Usually do not result from past negative experiences but in fact, the person never have had contact with the object of the phobia

Answer 3

Phobia

Question 4

Fear of going outside

Answer 4

Agoraphobia

Question 5

An irrational fear of a particular object or a situation

Answer 5

Specific Phobia

Question 6

An anxiety provoked by certain social or performance situations

Answer 6

Social Anxiety

Question 7

Categories of Specific Phobia

Answer 7

1. Natural Environment Phobia
2. Blood-Infection Phobia
3. Situational Phobia
4. Animal Phobia
5. Other types of Specific Phobia

Question 8

Fear of storms, water, heights, or other natural phenomena

Answer 8

Natural Environment Phobia

Question 9

Fear of seeing one’s own or other’s blood, traumatic injury, or an invasive medical procedure such as injection

Answer 9

Blood-Injection Phobia

Question 10

Fear of being in a specific situation such as on a bridge or in a tunnel, elevator, small room, hospital, or airplane

Answer 10

Situational Phobia

Question 11

Fear of animals or insects (usually specific type; often this fear develops in childhood and can continue through adulthood in both men and women

Answer 11

Animal Phobia

Question 12

aka Social Anxiety Disorder

Answer 12

Social Phobia

Question 13

The person becomes severely anxious to the point of panic or incapacitation when confronting situations involving people

Answer 13

Social Phobia

Question 14

Onset of Phobia

Answer 14

Usually occur in childhood or adolescence

Persists into adulthood are lifelong 80% of the time

Question 15

Peak age of onset for Social Phobia

Answer 15

Middle adolescence

Question 16

Treatment: Phobia

Answer 16

Behavioral Therapy

Therapies that can help the client develop self-esteem and self-control (positive reframing and assertiveness training)

Systematic (serial) Desensitization

Flooding

Question 17

The therapist progressively exposes the client to the threatening object in a safe setting until the client’s anxiety decreases

Answer 17

Systematic (serial) Desensitization

Question 18

A form of rapid desensitization in which a behavioral therapist confronts the client with the phobic object until it no longer produces anxiety

Answer 18

Flooding

Question 19

By using Flooding, the goal is to rid the client of the phobia in how many sessions?

Answer 19

One or two sessions