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Running Head: THE SUCCESSFULNESS OF DIFFERENT ARACHNOPHOBIA 1THERAPIES: AN EVALUATED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHYThe Successfulness of Different Arachnophobia Therapies and the Search for the Best One: AnAnnotated BibliographyElizabeth van DijkNorth Carolina State UniversityRunning Head: THE SUCCESSFULNESS OF DIFFERENT ARACHNOPHOBIA 2THERAPIES: AN EVALUATED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHYINTRODUCTIONArachnophobia, the most common type of animal phobia, is the fear of spiders. Treatmentof arachnophobia, like most phobias, is possible. Some of the most used and widely researched forms of therapy include, cognitive-behavioral therapy, systematic desensitization, and virtual reality stimulation. Treating a psychological disorder can be difficult because there is no cure-all or test to see if it is treated properly. Thus, many researches continuously try to find newer and better ways of treatment. I have a particular interest in this area because I personally suffer from arachnophobia. I have not yet been successfully treated and am very interested to see what my best options will be. I will be investigating which therapy option is the best by comparing the success rates of each method. The success rate can be determined by the level of progress of eacharachnophobic participant or the amount of participants that have made progress. All the following authors are credible sources for their numerous publications of articles in respectable journals making them valuable sources for future research in the topic of arachnophobic therapy. ANNOTATIONSSource OneWagener, A., & Zettle, R. (2011). Targeting Fear of Spiders with Control-, Acceptance-, and Information-Based Approached. The Psychological Record,61(1), 77-92.RetrievedOctober 10, 2013, from the PsycINFO database.SUMMARYWagener and Zettle (2011) experimented to understand the relative impact of different therapeutic approaches that target the fear of spiders. Previous research suggested that an acceptance-based approach would present the greatest progress of approach behavior. Consistently, the research also suggested that an information-based approach would present theRunning Head: THE SUCCESSFULNESS OF DIFFERENT ARACHNOPHOBIA 3THERAPIES: AN EVALUATED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHYlowest levels of progress. The overall findings claimed that acceptance-based approaches are more successful with inducing continuous involvement with the stimulus rather that approaches that control physical sensations and psychological ideas. Thus, knowing the particular method of change that underlies a specific approach that is more effective than a different approach would be more useful in future researching of the cure of human suffering. EVALUATIONDr. Alexandra Wagener is a credible author when it comes to anxiety articles for many reasons. First, she obtained her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Tampa, then she earned her Master's and Doctorate degrees in Clinical Psychology from Wichita State University. Second, she continued to publish multiple articles in journals such as The Psychological Record and Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology in which she published titles such as "Childhood anxiety and depressive symptoms: Trajectories, relationship, and association with subsequent depression" and "Psychometric Properties of the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire: Comparisons in a Clinical versus Nonclinical Sample". She has also worked at many credible companies such as Mental Health Care Inc. and Good Shepherd psychiatric hospital. Because of her experience in psychiatric institutes and publications of anxiety in psychological journals, she qualifies as a credible source for which continued researchwould be respectable.Running Head: THE SUCCESSFULNESS OF DIFFERENT ARACHNOPHOBIA 4THERAPIES: AN EVALUATED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHYSource TwoBouchard, S., Cote, S., St-Jacques, J., Robillard, G., & Renaud, P. (2006). Effectiveness of virtual reality exposure in the treatment of arachnophobia using 3D games. Technology and Health Care,14(1), 19.27. Retrieved October 10, 2013, from the IOS Pressdatabase.SUMMARYBouchard et al. (2006) claim that there would be a difference between pre and post-test behavioral measures using in virtuo exposure. The authors claim that virtual reality environmentscould reduce unpredicted events during exposure and could reproduce situations that would be difficult to reproduce. They suggest that VR therapy may be less costly and more confidential than real life (in vivo) therapy. They also claim that using VR as a therapeutic tool in exposure to feared stimuli has already received empirical support and credit. In conclusion, analysis revealed that their hypothesis was correct because there were many differences between pre and post-test. There were said differences on arachnophobia questionnaires and on the behavioral avoidance test. Further research can be expected since this study was only preliminary. Therefore, further investigation into virtual reality techniques and applied VR compared to different media. EVALUATIONStephane Bouchard is a very dependable source when it comes to the evaluation of psychological therapies. He received multiple Canadian degrees consisting of L'Ordre des psychologues du Quebec (1991), B.A. in Psychology from the Universite Laval, Quebec (1989), M.A in Psychology from the Universite Laval, Quebec (1990), and a Ph.D. in Psychology fromRunning Head: THE SUCCESSFULNESS OF DIFFERENT ARACHNOPHOBIA 5THERAPIES: AN EVALUATED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHYthe Universite Laval, Quebec (1995). He is currently a professor at the Universite du Quebec en Outaouais and also hold the Canada Research Chair in Clinical Cyberpsychology. Moreover, he has received more than 5 million dollars in infrastructure and research grants and is the director of the Canadian Cyberpsychology and Anxiety Virtual Lab. All these criterion prove furthermorethan Bouchard is a more than credible source is the field of anxiety focusing in virtual reality. Source ThreeReese, H., McNally, R., Najmi, S., & Amir, N. (2010). Attention training for reducing spider fear in spider-fearful individuals.Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 24(7), 657-662. Retrieved October 15, 2013, from the Science Direct database.SUMMARYThe attention biases of spiders in spider-fearing people may be experimentally reduced.. Attention biases of a fear is involved in the result of anxiety, then reduction of attention may reduce the


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