Specific Phobia - Treatment

Treatment

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)- a psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, maladaptive behaviors and cognitive processes and contents through a number of goal-oriented, explicit systematic procedures

One-Session Treatment (OST)- a variant of cognitive-behavioral therapy, combines graduated in vivo exposure, participant modeling, reinforcement, psychoeducation, cognitive challenges, and skills training in an intensive treatment model. Treatment is maximized to one 3-hour session. The success of the treatment is could be affected by the therapeutic relationship, motivation, and expectations towards the treatment and their possible relations with the outcome.


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