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Childhood Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias: A Cognitive-Behavioral, Psychosituational Approach

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Rational Emotive Behavioral Approaches to Childhood Disorders

Conclusion

In this chapter, we have described and explained a comprehensive model for diagnosing and psychotherapeutically treating the anxieties, fears, and phobias of youngsters. The model considers those intrapersonal and ecological variables that theory and research have shown to be particularly keen influences on human behavior. We believe this approach to be the most clinically practical and effective schema that we have discovered in our years of study and practice.

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Grieger, R.M., Boyd, J.D. (2006). Childhood Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias: A Cognitive-Behavioral, Psychosituational Approach. In: Ellis, A., Bernard, M.E. (eds) Rational Emotive Behavioral Approaches to Childhood Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26375-6_8

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