fear and phobias a) What is phobia b) Difference of fear and phobia c) Part of the brain which is responsible for fear and phobia d) Classification of phobia Specific phobia- meaning Blood injury injection phobia Situational phobia Natural environment phobia Animal phobia Causes Symptoms Treatment Social phobia – meaning Causes Symptoms Treatment Agoraphobia – meaning Causes Symptoms Treatment e) Examples III Conclusion IV Bibliography Phobia A phobia is an
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1 Clown Phobia (Coulrophobia) Mary Jane Oakley SOCL215-1202B-22/Colorado Technical University Instructor: Joelouie Genus May 23‚ 2012 Phase 1 DB 2 After conducting the interviewing process in Clown Phobia‚ I found it to be very interesting in the answers that I have received. The person that I interviewed that was under the age of 40 had given me the following responses. When asked if they liked clowns and what they thought about them‚ their reply was that they found them to be funny on
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‘’DISCUSS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRESS‚ ANXIETY‚ HABITS‚ AND PXHOBIAS‚ AND DESCRIBE HOW YOU WOULD TREAT THESE ISSUES WITH HYPNOTHERAPY’’. In this essay I shall discuss the relationship between stress‚ anxiety‚ habits and phobias and describe how you would treat these issues with hypnotherapy. What is stress? Stress is the feeling of being under too much mental or emotional pressure. Pressure turns into stress when you feel unable to cope. People have different ways of reacting
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Fears and Phobias Opinion Paper “A strong dislike of flying is a fear‚ whereas a pathological fear (an intense‚ uncontrollable‚ unendurable‚ physical fear) is considered to be a phobia” (Rob Kelly). Not many people know the difference between fears and phobias neither did I until I began researching for my project. Many people have fears such as a fear of mice or a fear of the dentist. For some people there fears are very minor but what happens when a fear takes over a person’s entire life and disrupts
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Introduction Phobias aren’t just extreme fears. They are irrational fears of a particular thing. For instance‚ you may be able to ski the world’s tallest mountains with ease but be unable to go above the 5th floor of an office building. (NIMH‚ 1995) Even though adults with phobias realize that these fears are irrational‚ they often find that facing or even thinking about the feared object or situation brings on a panic attack or severe anxiety. Affecting an estimated 6.3 million adult Americans(Lefton
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PHOBIAS A phobia is an excessive or unreasonable fear of an object‚ place or situation. Simple phobias are fears of specific things such as insects‚ infections‚ flying. Agoraphobia is a fear of being in places where one feels "trapped" or unable to get help‚ such as in crowds‚ on a bus‚ or standing in a queue. A social phobia is a marked fear of social or performance situations. Phobias are extremely common. Sometimes they start in childhood for no apparent reason; sometimes they emerge after a
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Discuss the relationship between stress‚ anxiety‚ habits and phobias and describe how you would treat these issues with hypnotherapy. Introduction The above all form part of the human experience and are linked to one another by conditions that come down to what our minds are capable of doing to us‚ especially when it might involve losing our sense of reason. Our primal instinct provides us with a ‘fight or flight’ reaction‚ the outcome being dependent on the actual situation but nonetheless
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Phobias and Addictions PSY/300 Bonnie Johnson 09/22/2014 Phobias and Addictions Phobias and addictions are two emotional difficulties that people throughout the world suffer from. Herein we will explore these emotional difficulties as they relate to classical and operant conditioning. More precisely‚ how phobias can be developed through classical conditioning and how addictions can be developed through operant conditioning. Moreover‚ this paper
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describe what people feel when they are suffering from a phobia. A phobia is an intense‚ ridiculous amount of fear of something or a situation that is far from what really could happen. Phobias affect people of all ages. The National Institute of Mental Health has stated that 5.1%-12.5% of all American’s encounter some sort of phobia. They are the most common psychiatric illness among women of all ages and men over 25. When someone has a phobia‚ they start to feel panic‚ dread‚ or anxious when
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Types of Conditioning Phobias and Addictions Todd Hague PSY/300 August 28‚ 2013 Richard Johnston Types of Conditioning Phobia and Addictions Phobias and addictions can be very difficult on a mental standpoint. The definition of a phobia is an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object‚ class of objects‚ or situation (Webster). There are many kinds of phobias such as‚ Cynophobia the fear of dogs could be a result of being bitten as a child or being cornered
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