One-Session Treatment for Specific Phobias: A Review of Öst's Single-Session Exposure with Children and Adolescents

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 275-283

  Ollendick, Thomas H ^a   Davis III, Thompson E ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

children and adolescents; exposure therapy; one Session Treatment; specific phobia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84888130503     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2013.773062     Document Type: Article

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