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  2. Acrophobia - Wikipedia

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    Acrophobia, also known as hypsophobia, is an extreme or irrational fear or phobia of heights, especially when one is not particularly high up. It belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space and motion discomfort, that share similar causes and options for treatment.

  3. Exposure hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    When designing an exposure hierarchy, therapists first conduct a thorough assessment of their client's fear with particular attention to the (a) feared object or situation, (b) feared consequences of confronting the object, (c) fear-related avoidance or safety behaviors, and (d) triggers and contexts of the fear. [3]

  4. Fear of roller coasters - Wikipedia

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    Fear of roller coasters, also known as veloxrotaphobia, is the extreme fear of roller coasters.It can also be informally referred to as coaster-phobia. [1]Such a fear is thought to originate from one or more of three factors: childhood trauma, fear of heights, and parental fears that “rub off” on their children. [2]

  5. Fear of falling - Wikipedia

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    For a long time, the fear of falling was merely believed to be a result of the psychological trauma of a fall, also called "post-fall syndrome". [7] This syndrome was first mentioned in 1982 by Murphy and Isaacs, [8] who noticed that after a fall, ambulatory persons developed intense fear and walking disorders.

  6. Screen for child anxiety related disorders - Wikipedia

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    The SCARED is most commonly used in the 41-item version published in 1999 which was updated with three additional items in the social phobia scale. [3] There is also a 66-item SCARED-Revised (SCARED-R) that includes the panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, and separation anxiety disorder scales. [3]

  7. Beck Anxiety Inventory - Wikipedia

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    The final subsample (n = 160), on which extensive validation of the final BAI was carried out, was made up of groups with primary diagnoses of major depressive disorder (n = 40); dysthymic disorder and atypical depression (n = 11); panic disorder (n = 45); generalized anxiety disorder (n = 18); agoraphobia with panic attacks (n = 18); social ...

  8. Police ID woman set on fire in shocking incident on New York ...

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    Authorities have identified the woman who burned to death after she was set on fire inside a New York City subway train as 57-year-old Debrina Kawam.

  9. 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 ...