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Ex-phobic Volunteers in the Treatment of Agoraphobic Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Tyrer
Peter Tyrer*
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Mapperley Hospital, Nottingham
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Although behaviour therapy, primarily in the form of gradual and prolonged exposure to phobic situations, is now well established as the treatment of choice in most cases of agoraphobia not all suitable patients receive this treatment. This is partly because behaviour therapy is time-consuming and, although there have been great gains made in recent years with the establishment of training for nurses in behaviour therapy, in many peripheral hospitals few nurses have the necessary training. There are increasing demands made upon the time of the community psychiatric nurse and it seems likely that the proportion spent in behaviour therapy will be squeezed to a level that will deprive some patients of its benefits.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 10 , Issue 5 , May 1986 , pp. 111 - 113
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1986

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