Video: Social Workers & Phobia Sufferers

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A social worker can give resources to someone suffering form phobias. Learn what a social worker can do for phobias from a social worker in this free overcoming phobia video.

Video Transcript

Cognitive behavioral therapy is kind of done differently by each type of counselor you go to. For example, if you go to a social worker, most likely what they're going to do is, you'll do half and half. So half of your session is going to be, you know, talk about the feelings, what's going on, what feeling exactly gets provoked when you see this object, or your in this place? If you're afraid..claustrophobic, afraid of small spaces. You know, maybe your social worker would have told you; try opening the closet door and looking in. See if you can take a step in. And then your next session, what you would do is you would discuss what happened. Were you able to even open the door? How far in did you get? What were the things that go through your mind? A lot of times they might provide you with some kind of work sheet so that you can get a better understanding. One of the things that isn't always incorporated but can be incorporated to this,is kind of a support group, a peer support group. And if you're not doing this on the side, what your counselor will do is they'll go ahead and incorporate some of those elements, by providing you with some information that other people with the same or at least similar type of phobia as yourself have, knowing that now you're not alone and that this is a little bit more common than you thought and that other people can and are, you know, being able to live with it and doing just fine.

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