Specific Phobias
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Background: and objectives: Specific phobia of vomiting (SPOV) is a chronic, pervasive and debilitating disorder which is clinically regarded as difficult to treat. Research into its development, maintenance and treatment has been... more
Background: and objectives: Specific phobia of vomiting (SPOV) is a chronic, pervasive and debilitating disorder which is clinically regarded as difficult to treat. Research into its development, maintenance and treatment has been... more
Please tick the box that best describes how your fear of vomiting has affected you OVER THE PAST WEEK, INCLUDING TODAY.
This paper reviews the evidence for Neolithic burial practices in SE Arabia, focusing in particular on sites in the Ja'alan region of eastern Oman. Attention is given to the nature of material buried with human remains, including... more
Aims: To explore whether the phenomenology and co-morbidity of a specific phobia of vomiting (SPOV) (also known as “emetophobia”) might best fit within the group of obsessive compulsive and related disorders. Method: Case review of... more
The purpose of the research was to compare the effectiveness of the following treatment methods for fear of flying: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) integrated with systematic desensitization, CBT combined with eye movement... more
The following questionnaire is about measuring the severity of the fear of vomiting and vomit OVER THE PAST WEEK. Please read each question carefully and, on the 1-5 scale below indicate your response by circling the appropriate number... more
Daha önce Travma Sonrası Stres Bozukluğu (TSSB) tanısı için dolaylı yoldan travmatik olayla karşılaşma kabul görmüş iken The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V (DSM-V) ile birlikte artık bunun geçerli olmadığını... more
Research demonstrating the effectiveness of virtual reality in the treatment of clinical disorders has increased over the last decade. The usability and affordability has made the technology within reach of clinicians. Counselors will... more
This study aimed to test a combined treatment with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), compared with CBT integrated with systematic desensitization, in reducing fear of flying.... more
Τι είναι η ΙΨΔ Η Ιδεοψυχαναγκαστική διαταραχή είναι μια διαταραχή που ανήκει στις αγχώδεις διαταραχές. Το άτομο που πάσχει από ΙΨΔ παγιδεύεται από μια σειρά επαναληπτικών σκέψεων που ονομάζονται ιδεοληψίες και επαναλαμβανόμενων... more
Research suggests that Claustrophobia, defined as the fear of enclosed spaces, may be better conceptualized as two separate, but related fears: (1) the fear of suffocation, and (2) the fear of restriction. The Claustrophobia Questionnaire... more
Hate and fear are negative but very powerful influences on human beings. Islamophobia is hate for and fear of Islam. Like every human-feeling hate, fear and anger are not evil in themselves. After all we should hate crime, fear... more
Background: Vomiting is an almost universal phenomenon, but little is known about the aetiology of a specific phobia of vomiting (SPOV). The associations with vomiting during childhood and autobiographical memories may have relevance for... more
This paper explores the traits of the leadership dexterity of special students. Leadership in special students is not an expected phenomenon. Cases of special students studying at the University of Tampere, Finland are reported on here.... more
The Freudian and Kleinian conceptions of the struggle between 'life' and 'death' instincts are not identical. This paper puts forward a model which attempts both to reconcile and add to the differences between them, whilst... more
The psychological treatment of anxiety disorders in people with autism has usually been studied in populations with good speech and communication skills. For people with intellectual disability, research participants were mostly those... more
This study validated the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-SE) based on data collected from 227 adults in the United States. Results indicated that the C19P-SE has adequate reliability (a ¼ .93) along with factorial, discriminant, and... more
The psychological treatment of anxiety disorders in people with autism has usually been studied in populations with good speech and communication skills. For people with intellectual disability, research participants were mostly those... more
Abstrak Bermain merupakan kegiatan utama yang dilakukan oleh anak-anak untuk mempelajari banyak hal sekaligus mengembangkan kemampuannya, salah satunya adalah bermain boneka. Namun demikian, pada kenyataannya bermain boneka justru menjadi... more
Phobia towards small animals has been treated using exposure in vivo and virtual reality. Recently, augmented reality (AR) has also been presented as a suitable tool. The first AR system developed for this purpose used visible markers for... more
The psychological treatment of anxiety disorders in people with autism has usually been studied in populations with good speech and communication skills. For people with intellectual disability, research participants were mostly those... more
An Augmented Reality system for the treatment of phobia to small animals viewed via an optical see-through HMD. Comparison with a similar system viewed via a video see-through. Abstract. This paper presents an optical see-through (OST)... more
This is my review of Jessica Piazza's poetry collection, INTERROBANG, in which I admired her employment of the phobia, the philia, and alter-egos in poetry.
The use of Virtual Environments (VE) has become increasingly widespread in our society. VE have been used successfully in the general population for educational and job training purposes. VE are also known for being a tool to treat... more
Recent conceptualisations of anxiety posit that equivocal findings related to the time-course of disengaging from threat-relevant stimuli may be attributable to individual differences in associative and rule-based processing. The current... more
Resumen: El presente estudio examina la asociación entre las dimensiones del asco y los síntomas fóbicos (i.e., miedos y síntomas sangre-inyecciones) en una muestra no clínica (N = 580). El asco fue evaluado mediante dos escalas de... more
A phobia (anxiety disorder) is an overwhelming and unreasonable fear of an object or situation that poses little real danger but provokes anxiety and avoidance. The three classes of phobias are social phobia (fear of speaking with others,... more
This paper argues that specific phobia is an ideal kind of psychiatric disorder because it bears the marks of a mature medical diagnosis and is amenable to causal explanation. A new and ambitious program of ‘causal revolution’ has... more
Objective: It is suggested that the psychological and emotional reactions that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to serious psychiatric disorders in the long run. This study aims to establish the validity and reliability of... more
Resumen: El presente estudio examina la asociación entre las dimensiones del asco y los síntomas fóbicos (i.e., miedos y síntomas sangre-inyecciones) en una muestra no clínica (N = 580). El asco fue evaluado mediante dos escalas de... more
Resumen: El presente estudio examina la asociación entre las dimensiones del asco y los síntomas fóbicos (i.e., miedos y síntomas sangre-inyecciones) en una muestra no clínica (N = 580). El asco fue evaluado mediante dos escalas de... more
This paper presents an optical see-through (OST) Augmented Reality (AR) system for the treatment of phobia to small animals. The technical characteristics of the OST system are described, and a comparative study of the sense of presence... more
Phobia towards small animals has been treated using exposure in vivo and virtual reality. Recently, augmented reality (AR) has also been presented as a suitable tool. The first AR system developed for this purpose used visible markers for... more
In this study, the effect of Covid-19 phobia on perceived stress in prehospital emergency care professionals was investigated. No sampling method was implemented in this study, and it was tried to access the whole population (n=102). The... more
Stavovi većine pripadnika populacije ljudi na globalnom nivou uglavnom visoko koreliraju između sebe. Ljudi imaju slična mišljenja o svjetskoj preraspodjeli kapitala, gladi u svijetu, odnosa prema kriminalu, centrima moći i slično. Ipak,... more