Conditioning Treatments for Phobias

Running head : Conditioned treatment

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Introduction

Phobia is used to refer to fear of an activity , an object or a situation which is usually irrational and which makes an individual to avoid such things which causes such fear . Phobia usually affects the way people carry out their work , their ability to effectively carry out their tasks as well as their social skills . One of the major resultant of phobia is feelings of anxiety which makes an individual to avoid any object which may

be the cause of the fear . A person suffering from phobia may exhibit symptoms like feelings of horror , panic or terror fear that is beyond the actual threat , reactions which are uncontrollable which overtakes the thoughts of an individual , increased heart beat which may be accompanied by trembling and breath shortage and extra caution to avoid the object which is being feared . There are different categories of phobia which include agoraphobic , specific phobia and social phobia . Agoraphobic arises when a person dreads being in situation where he cannot escape . This leads to irrational fear in a person thus creating panic and anxiety . This is the most difficult form of phobia to treat since it encompasses a wide range of fears . Social phobia refers to the fear which is associated with fear of people while specific phobia is any other phobia apart from the social and agoraphobia . Specific phobia includes phobias like animal phobia natural environment phobia and situational phobia among others (Compton 1992...