Phobia Solution: Three-Hour Immersion
BETHESDA, Md. (UPI) -- Swedish and U.S. scientists are getting results with a radical new treatment of juvenile phobias, the New York Times reported. Sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and conducted by researchers from Virginia Tech and Stockholm University, the treatment is an intense, three-hour immersion experience.
Children with phobias are exposed to their worst nightmares until their bodies are too weary to respond with stress. But in this trial with children, the lessons typically experienced over several sessions are done in one, long experience. Dr. Thomas Ollendick, one of the investigators and a professor of psychology at Virginia Tech, said the "notion is that a phobia persists because a person has certain catastrophic thoughts about what will happen. "We expose them to the fear and help them realize what they dread will happen does not truly happen," Ollendick said.
BETHESDA, Md. (UPI) -- Swedish and U.S. scientists are getting results with a radical new treatment of juvenile phobias, the New York Times reported. Sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and conducted by researchers from Virginia Tech and Stockholm University, the treatment is an intense, three-hour immersion experience.
Children with phobias are exposed to their worst nightmares until their bodies are too weary to respond with stress. But in this trial with children, the lessons typically experienced over several sessions are done in one, long experience. Dr. Thomas Ollendick, one of the investigators and a professor of psychology at Virginia Tech, said the "notion is that a phobia persists because a person has certain catastrophic thoughts about what will happen. "We expose them to the fear and help them realize what they dread will happen does not truly happen," Ollendick said.
Charles Mims
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