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Self-exposure Instructions by Telephone With a Severe Agoraphobic: A Case Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Ian Taylor
Ian Taylor
Affiliation:
Senior Clinical Psychologist, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff
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This case study explores the therapeutic usefulness of self-exposure instructions by telephone. With very little contact (2 h 20 min over 11 weeks), the agoraphobic client made considerable progress in traveling by bus and shopping in crowded stores. As he lived a considerable distance from the hospital and could not have attended for regular out-patient sessions, a home-based programme would have been the only other alternative. This would have been much less cost-effective.

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Clinical Section
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1984 , pp. 68 - 72
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1984

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