Therapy (VRET) in Treating Specific Phobia Specific phobia, described in DSM-V, is a certain kind of anxiety disorder, in which a patient experiences an amount of unreasonable intense fear for certain objects or situations. Stimulators include animals, natural environment, situations and blood injection injury (APA, 2013). Intense fear and extreme anxiety generally result in patients with social impairment. In the United States, the lifetime prevalence for specific phobia is 12.5% (Kessler & Chiu
the general population suffers from one or more fear of a specific object or situation (Williams 1987). If a fear becomes excessive or unreasonable it is termed a phobia. Phobias can lead to significant impairment in daily life (Vigerland 2013). Specific phobia is an anxiety disorder that is defined as an unreasonable or irrational fear that has a negative impact on daily living, having a life-time prevalence rate of over 10%, specific phobias are the most prevalent group of mental disorders Five main
For my research topic I chose to write about Specific Phobias and their effects on personality development in early childhood. The reason for this topic is that I have a major interest in cognition along with personality development in early childhood. I am especially interested in finding out how factors such as specific phobias can ultimately affect a person in the course of their life. . I hope to find a positive or a negative connection between phobias and personality. Along with this I want to
There are three main categories that a phobia can fall under. The three categories are as follows. First, Specific phobias, which are usually your phobias of something such as spiders, clowns or even something like your dentist. Specific phobias fall under a category of simple phobias. A simple phobia is something, or someone that people are disproportionately fearful of. The next two categories of phobias are considered complex phobias. These phobias are inter connected to the memory. They usually
One of the characteristics of a phobia is a feeling that is greater than the fear of a situation or object with an exaggeration of the danger associated with the said situation or even object. This persistent fear often leads to an anxiety disorder that leads an individual to develop mechanisms that ensure one avoids the object or situation that triggers the occurrence of the phobia. Phobias can have highly debilitating effects on an individual including the development of depression, isolation,
to him. This specific phobia has been present in his life for a year and has caused him to avoid sunlight at all cost. This natural environment specific phobia has simply forced him into home isolation during the day, to avoid the sun. He will leave his home at night to go to the grocery store and his mailbox. He has been out of work for the past year, leaving him with excess financial stress as well. Patient Diagnosis and Discussion Kyle has been diagnosed having a specific phobia is defined as
1. Describe the context of the incident. There has been an incident that is ongoing since the beginning of the second week of school that has made me worried, concerned, and confused about a specific student. This student has been prevented by his parents from doing a variety of different things that are typical for the school day. The students’ parents have refused to sign a consent form for the student to participate in “Summit,” which is the main source of the fifth grade curriculum for the school
Change Is In the Wind: An Analysis of The Grapes of Wrath Metathesiophobia is the persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of change. The fear of change is exceptionally common in majority of the population. People become comfortable with routines and when that routine is threatened, whether they fear change or not will affect how they react to the situation at stake. Man needs control of their life and change takes that away, causing insecurity. Hence, insecurity is a common emotion behind metathesiophobia
opportunity to have a good encounter with spiders. Exposure therapy requires the person to confront the spider in order to grasp that the threat level of a spider is not as big as they once believed. According to the American Psychiatric Association, phobias affect more than one in ten people in the US today. To gather more information concerning arachnophobia and the fear of spiders in our area, I attained a substantial amount of opinions from Northern Kentuckians in the Alexandria area. I asked locals
Phobias have been in existence for many years. Phobias date back to the works of Hippocrates, a prehistoric Greek physician (Korgeski, 2009). The works of Hippocrates are still debated today. In The Seventh Book of Epidemics, one of the publications by Hippocrates, he studied an individual and he interpreted a condition that the person portrayed. The results of the observation were that the individual was petrified of the sound of a flute, if he wasn’t intoxicated. He noticed the individual was
a. Attention Getter: According to the article “Phobia Statistics” from fearof.net, “Nearly 15-20% of us experience specific phobias at least once in our life. In the U.S., nearly 8.7% of people (aged 18 and over) have at least one extreme specific fear and nearly 25 million Americans report having the fear of flying phobia. b. Introduce Topic: A phobia as defined by medicalnewstoday.com, “is an irrational fear, a kind of anxiety disorder in which the sufferer has a relentless dread of a situation
psychiatrist to check if you have a phobia. A phobia is a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it. Having a fear of something and a having a phobia is said to be the same, but in psychology it is agreed to be divergent because having a phobia goes way beyond a fear. The word phobia comes from the greek word phobos, which means excessive fear or terror. There are a plethora of phobias that exist. Phobias can be divided into subcategories
Introduction Phobias are defined as extreme or irrational fears, often persistent, that compel sufferers to avoid the object or situation to which their fear is connected. A specific phobia relates to a particular stimulus that causes fear, anxiety or avoidance and results in intense distress for the sufferer. A specific fear of clowns has sometimes been discussed in terms of a specific phobia. (Zidbits, 2011) Although fears of clowns have existed in many countries over history, the term is not
Behavior Management: The Effectiveness of Systematic Desensitization on Various Phobias Human behavior is complex and difficult to predict and control. Many theories of behavior modification exist today with an abundance of research to support claims, but which one is most effective? Past research provides support for the effectiveness of systematic desensitization as well as flooding and fading when used to treat phobias. (Ost, 1978, p. 379, Rudestam & Bedrosian, 1977, p. 23). Systematic desensitization
Phobias Fear is what many people have and it means that they are afraid of something or someone, but fear is just one thing, phobias is a completely different thing. Phobias is not just a silly little fear, it is an extreme, irrational, and excessive fear of certain things or situations that can negatively affect someone's life. There are many different types of phobias for different situations. Some examples of phobias, Mysophobia, Acrophobia, Arachnophobia, and plenty more. According to the website
are called phobias. There are over five hundred (500) types of phobias with a specific name, classification and description of that phobia. Phobias can become very extreme and hard to deal with if not treated after a certain amount of time. From understanding what a phobia is, the history, statistical facts, signs/symptoms and different types of treatment one can learn and understand that phobias are a serious matter and can be treated for. As long as a person understands what phobia they have, commit
categorized as a phobia. Living a life with constant fear that interferes with a person’s everyday life would be categorized as an anxiety disorder. Joseph Wolpe developed a way which systematic desensitization, a form of psychotherapy, can help a person gradually decrease their anxiety or fear for a certain situation. He used neuroses, a group of psychological
Phobia is the fear of a situation or object, which is not dangerous or troublesome to other people. Phobias range from someone being fearful of spiders to attending school. Phobia is a type of anxiety disorder that can overtake someone’s life. It can limit his or her social and mental life if not treated. Theories have been deprive from studies discussing what causes phobias and how it can affect the person’s life. Phobias vary from every person because everyone has a different perspective on an
What is Dentophobia? For every phobia the infinitely inventive – and infinitely fearful – human mind can create, there is a word that has been coined to describe it (Kluger). To understand the dental phobia disorder fully, one must gain a general background on phobias, be able to recognize their causes and symptoms, and learn how the disease is treated and possibly cured. Because phobias are a mental disorder, they may lead to many health issues and personal distresses; therefore, it is important
to get it out. However, it is not impossible! Phobias are one thing we choose to feed our mind. Fear of spiders, fear of heights, fear of public speaking, fear of small spaces and etc. Fears like these are considered phobias. A lot of people choose to think of a traumatic event that has happened and use that to stimulate the brain to create the phobia of the actions taking place. Most phobias can be identified by symptoms. People tend to think phobias are impossible to treat, but there are some treatments