phobias
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- Created on: 30-05-17 11:01
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- Phobias
- A phobia is an irrational fear of an object or stimulus
- Specific Phobia are phobias on an object or a situation
- Social Phobia is a phobia of being in a public such as public toilets
- Behavioural Characteristicsof Phobias
- Behavioural refers to the way people act
- Panic
- A Phobic person may panic in response to the presence of a phobic stimulus by crying, screaming running away
- Avoidance
- Tend to make effort to avoid phobic stimulus, making day to day life hard
- Endurance
- Sufferer remains in the presence of the phobic stimulus but continues to experience high anxiety
- Emotional Characteristicsof Phobias
- Emotional refers to the way people feel
- Anxiety
- Emotional Response of anxiety and fear they are unreasonable
- Cognitive Characteristicsof Phobias
- Cognitive refers to the way we think
- Cognitive Distortions
- Distorts the way in which the phobic stimulus is presented
- Select Attention
- If sufferer can see the phobic stimulus it may be hard to look away from it, which is not useful when the fear is irrational
- A phobia is an irrational fear of an object or stimulus
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