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  2. Childhood phobia - Wikipedia

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    Phobias are irrational; they cannot be reasoned away. In the case of most phobias, a qualified councilor or trained psychologist is needed to help a child overcome their phobia. [3] Cognitive behavioural therapy is routinely used to treat phobias in the UK over several sessions. Research has shown that a single session of cognitive behavioural ...

  3. Mental health in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Lunacy Act 1890 placed an obligation on local authorities to maintain institutions for the mentally ill. By 1938 131,000 patients were in local authority mental hospitals in England and Wales, and 13,000 in District Asylums in Scotland, where there were also seven Royal Mental Asylums. Mental hospitals were overcrowded and understaffed.

  4. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  5. How To Find The Right Type Of Therapy For You - AOL

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    Especially for those who suffer with depression and social anxiety, or who live in a small town with limited resources, virtual care has been a huge blessing to mental health advancement, Bufka adds.

  6. Phobia - Wikipedia

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    A specific phobia is a marked and persistent fear of an object or situation. Specific phobias may also include fear of losing control, panicking, and fainting from an encounter with the phobia. [1] Specific phobias are defined concerning objects or situations, whereas social phobias emphasize social fear and the evaluations that might accompany ...

  7. Specific social phobia - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is commonly used to treat social phobia. [4] CBT uses various techniques in order to improve the individual (diagnosed with social phobia), ways of thinking, behaving and coping in social situations that lead the individual to distress.

  8. Specific phobia - Wikipedia

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    Specific phobias have a lifetime prevalence rate of 7.4% and a one-year prevalence of 5.5% according to data collected from 22 different countries. [22] The usual age of onset is childhood to adolescence. During childhood and adolescence, the incidence of new specific phobias is much higher in females than males.

  9. Nik & Eva Speakman - Wikipedia

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    Since 2010 the couple have been resident therapists on ITV's This Morning, hosting a segment about issues and anxiety disorders ranging from obsessive–compulsive disorder to fears, phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder. [8] [9] [10] In 2014, the pair briefly hosted a spin-off daytime ITV show of their own entitled The Speakmans. [11]