characteristics phobias

• What are the 3 behavioural characteristics of phobias?

  • avoidance
  • Panic
  • endurance
• what are the 3 emotional characteristics of phobias?

  • Anxiety
  • fear
  • unreasonable emotional response
• what are the 3 cognitive characteristics of phobias?

  • irrational beliefs
  • cognitive distortions
  • Selective attention to phobia stimulus
• a phobia is defined as an irrational fear of an object or situation