A-Z Guide to Exposure

Erin Neely, PsyD is a Clinical Psychologist and Integrative Nutrition Coach. She works with elementary school-aged children to help them create happier and healthier lives and produces animations about mental health for her YouTube channel, Miss Erin Doctor. www.drerinneely.comDawn Huebner, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Parent Coach specializing in childhood anxiety. She is the author of award-winning books for children and speaks to groups of educators, mental health professionals, and parents around the world. www.dawnhuebnerphd.com

The A-to-Z Guide belongs in the tool kit of every therapist who treats anxiety disorders. Succinct yet comprehensive overview of exposure-based therapy and why it works. Innovative, effective, and fun interventions.

• IntroductionA-Z GuideA Addiction, Airplanes, Alarms, Alcohol/Alcoholism, Aliens, Alone, Animals, Ants, Apologies, Asymmetry, AtticB Bad Guys, Baddies (fictional), Baddies (real life), Balloons, Basement, Bathroom, Bees, Birds, Blood, Boats, Books, Bowel Movements, Bugs, ButtonsC Cars, Cats, Cellar, Change in Plans, Characters, Cheating, Checking, Choices, Choking, Cigarettes, Cities, Clothing, Clowns, Confined Spaces, Contaminated Object, Costumed CharactersDDangerous Animals, Dark, Death, Decisions, Defecating, Differentness, Dirt/Dirty, Disability, Divorce, Dizziness, Doctors, Dogs, Dolls, Downstairs, DrugsEEarthquakes, Eating, Elevators, Embarrassment, Emotions, Errors, EscalatorsFFailure, Fainting, Feces, Feelings, Fire, Flaws, Floods, Flying, Food, Frogs, FurnitureGGagging, Germs, Getting Rid of Things, Ghosts, Going Upstairs or Downstairs Alone, Growing UpHHalloween, Harm, Health, Heights, Hoarding, Hornets, Household Pets, Hurricanes, Hurting Oneself or OthersIIllness, Imperfection, Insects, Interruption, Intruders, Intrusive ThoughtsJJabs, Just Right FeelingKKidnappers, Killing, Knives LLateness, Lightning, Losing, Lying (inadvertent)MMaking Decisions, Mascots, Masks, Media, Medical Procedures, Medicine, Mistakes, Monsters, Motion Sickness, MoviesNNatural Disasters, Navigating Home Alone, Needles, New Experiences, Night, No, Noises, Numbers, NursesOOcean, Older People, Open Spaces, Over-wipingPPanic, People, Perfectionism, Pet Escaping, Pets, Picky Eating, Pills, Poop/Pooping, Potty Seat, Puberty, Public SpeakingQQualifiers, Questions RRain, Reassurance-Seeking, Religious Thoughts, Repeating, Re-Reading SSafety, Santa, School, Separation Anxiety, Sex, Sharks, Sickness, Sleeping Alone, Small Spaces, Snakes, Social Anxiety, Speaking, Spiders, Stains, Stinging Insects, Storms, Strangers, Suicide, Surrounded, Swallowing, Swimming, Symmetry TTalking, Teenagers, Terrorists, Tests, Throwing Up, Thunder, Tight Spaces, Timed Activities, Toads, Toileting, Tornadoes, Traveling, Treatment Avoidance, Triggering Words or Phrases, Trying New ThingsUUncertainty, Unfairness, Unhealthy Foods, Upstairs, Urban Legends, Urinating, VVacuum Cleaner, Vampires, Vegetables, Villains, VomitingWWasps, Water Immersion, Weather, Wiping, Witches, Words and PhrasesXX-raysYYes, Yacking, YellowjacketsZZombiesAbout the Authors