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Specific Phobia

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International Handbook of Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

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Although recent years have witnessed an evolution in the way in which the psychological and psychiatric communities conceptualize the childhood anxiety disorders, conceptualization of specific or simple phobia has changed very little. In fact, the classification of specific phobia in the current revisions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) [American Psychiatric Association (APA), 1994] and the International Classification of Disorders (ICD-10) [World Health Organization (WHO), 1992] is largely consistent with the criteria for distinguishing excessive and maladaptive phobias from more “normal,” nonmaladaptive fears proposed 20 years ago by Miller, Barrett, and Hampe (1974). These criteria state that a phobia, unlike a fear: (1) is excessive (i.e., out of proportion given the situation), (2) cannot be reasoned away, (3) is beyond voluntary control, (4) leads to avoidance of the feared stimulus, (5) persists over time, (6) is maladaptive, and (7) is not age- or stage-specific.

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Silverman, W.K., Rabian, B. (1994). Specific Phobia. In: Ollendick, T.H., King, N.J., Yule, W. (eds) International Handbook of Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1498-9_5

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