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Book SynopsisThis book describes the symptoms, prevalence rates, individual case histories and etiology of phobias. It explores treatment and covers current methodologies, outcome efficacy, and comparisons between different therapeutic techniques.
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Table of ContentsTHE NATURE AND DESCRIPTION OF PREVALENT PHOBIAS.
Social Phobia: A Cognitive Approach (A. Wells & D. Clark).
Agoraphobia (P. Salkovskis & A. Hackmann).
Blood-Injury-Injection Phobia (L.-G. Ost & K. Hellstrom).
Animal Phobias (S. Thorpe & P. Salkovskis).
Dental Phobias (G. Kent).
Water Phobia (R. Menzies).
Height Phobia (R. Menzies).
Accident Phobia (K. Kuch).
Claustrophobia (S. Rachman).
Atypical Phobias (R. McNally).
Specific Phobias in Children (T. Ollendick, et al.).
THE TREATMENT OF PHOBIAS.
Rapid Treatment of Specific Phobias (L.-G. Ost).
A Comparison of Behavioral and Cognitive Treatments of Phobias (M. Craske & M. Rowe).
The Use of Medication in the Treatment of Phobias (P. Hayward & J. Wardle).
GENERAL THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON AETIOLOGY AND MAINTENANCE.
A Conditioning Model of Phobias (G. Davey).
Evolutionary Models of Phobias (H. Merckelbach & P. de Jong).
Unconscious Pre-Attentive Mechanisms in the Activation of Phobic Fear (A. Ohman).
The Match-Mismatch Model of Phobia Acquisition (A. Arntz).
Information-Processing Approaches to Phobias (C. Cameron).
The Epidemiology of Fears and Phobias (T. Chapman).
Indexes.
