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One-Session Treatment: Principles and Procedures with Children and Adolescents

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Intensive One-Session Treatment of Specific Phobias

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One-Session Treatment (OST) is a massed, cognitive-behavioral exposure therapy that progresses over the course of a single, 3-hour session and was developed by Öst (1987, Scandinavian Journal of Behavior Therapy, 16, 175–184; 1989, One-session treatment for specific phobias. Behavior research and therapy, 27, 1–7; 1997, Phobias: A handbook of theory, research, and treatment, 227–247). Though originally developed as an intervention with adults, the adaptation and use of OST with children and adolescents have progressed substantially in the last decade or so.

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    Rationale adapted from those used in or described by Öst (1997), Öst and Ollendick (2001), Ollendick et al. (2009), Zlomke and Davis (2008), and Davis et al. (2009).

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  1. Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    Thompson E. Davis III, Erin T. Reuther & Melissa S. Munson

  2. Child Study Center, Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Thomas H. Ollendick

  3. Louisiana State University, Laboratory for Anxiety, Phobia, & Internalizing Disorder Studies (LAPIS), Department of Psychology, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    Erin T. Reuther & Melissa S. Munson

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  1. Dept. Psychology, Louisiana State University, Audubon Hall 236, Baton Rouge, 70803, Louisiana, USA

    Thompson E. Davis III

  2. Child Study Center, Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 24060, Virginia, USA

    Thomas H. Ollendick

  3. Dept. Psychology, Stockholm University, Frescati Hagväg 8, Stockholm, 106 91, Sweden

    Lars-Göran Öst

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Davis, T.E., Ollendick, T.H., Reuther, E.T., Munson, M.S. (2012). One-Session Treatment: Principles and Procedures with Children and Adolescents. In: Davis III, T., Ollendick, T., Öst, LG. (eds) Intensive One-Session Treatment of Specific Phobias. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3253-1_5

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