Behavioral assessment test with video (BATV): Assessment of phobic disorders

Rainwater, Avie James; McNeil, Daniel W.

doi:10.1016/0887-6185(90)90008-w

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“…Other criticisms levelled at BATs include ethical concerns of exposing a fearful person to a live stimulus (Peterson & Levis, 1985), that they often require a relatively large space (Hayes, Nelson, & Willis 1982), and access to and control of appropriate stimuli can be timeconsuming and difficult to arrange (e.g., planes, spiders). The need for a more accessible, standardised and effective method of administering BATs has been recognised by a number of researchers (Levis, 1969;Rainwater & McNeil, 1990) who have reported the use of slides and video administration of phobic stimuli as an alternative.…”

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Computer-Delivered Behavioural Avoidance Tests for Spider Phobia

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Behavioural avoidance tests (BATs) are a cornerstone of objective assessment of phobias. However, live BATs have several disadvantages. They are practically difficult and time-consuming to set up and are not standardised. This study examined two computer-delivered BATs (using slide and video presentations of phobic stimuli respectively): first, in respect to their ability to discriminate fearfuls from nonfearfuls, and second, in terms of convergent validity with a live BAT and the Spider Phobia Questionnaire (SPQ). Sixty-four low (n = 32) and high (n = 32) spider-fearful undergraduate participants were administered the three BATs in counterbalanced order. Results showed that subjective anxiety on all BATs was highly discriminative of low and high spider-fearfuls. The number of steps completed did not discriminate between phobics and nonphobics on the computer BATs. However, there was good convergent validity between the live BAT, the SPQ and both computer-delivered BATs on subjective anxiety. Overall, the live BAT gives a clearer indication of avoidance behaviour while the video BAT assesses subjective anxiety across a wider range of steps. The development of computer-delivered BATs that reliably measure avoidance is necessary before contemplating them as an alternative to a live BAT.

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“…One small study has reported the effects of using video images to assess fear (Rainwater & McNeil, 1990). Three phobic participants viewed movie vignettes specific to their fear.…”

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“…Sin embargo, en igualdad de eficacia, sí que consideramos que esta variante de intervención psicológica conductual puede ser muy útil y económica para cualquier clínico. Permite adaptarla con facilidad al tipo de estímulo fóbico específico del individuo, aporta un control exhaustivo del terapeuta sobre cada estímulo y los tiempos de presentación, y utiliza estímulos accesibles para cualquier clínico a través de fotos y vídeos específicos (Meng et al, 2004;Rainwater & McNeil, 1990). Además, no requiere de gran tecnología ni de demasiado gasto por parte del terapeuta para llevarla a cabo, e incluso podría adaptarse para autoaplicaciones en casa o por Internet (Matthews et al, 2012).…”

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Tratamiento de un caso de fobia a las arañas mediante exposición multimedia y progresiva

Ruiz‐García

2021

anuariodepsicologia

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Susan de 25 años fue diagnosticada de fobia específica de tipo animal (DSM-5) a las arañas. Se realizó un diseño de caso único A-B con evaluación continua en varias líneas-base durante el tratamiento; y, evaluación pre-post y dos seguimientos. Se utilizaron cuestionarios sobre ansiedad FSS-122, STAI-E/R, FSQ y WS-SPQ; medidas de ansiedad subjetiva y tasa cardíaca ante cada estímulo durante todas las sesiones. El tratamiento constó de 9 sesiones de exposición multimedia: fotografías, vídeos, arañas simuladas y arañas reales. Los objetivos fueron reducción de escape/evitación, y reducción de la ansiedad en situaciones con arañas. Los resultados tras el tratamiento mostraron grandes cambios en la evaluación pre-post donde disminuyeron las puntuaciones en los cuestionarios de ansiedad y valoración continua en las distintas líneas-base. Susan cogía sin problemas arañas pequeñas, incluso tuvo en sus manos una tarántula viva. En los dos seguimientos (8 meses y 2 años) se mantuvieron esos beneficios.

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“…Hayes, Nelson, Willis, and Akamatsu (1982) also validated a BAT presentation of snakes through slides. Rainwater and McNeil (1990) used scenes from movies showing anxiety stimuli for the assessment of dental phobia, claustrophobia in a submarine, and snake phobia. In a similar study, Hepburn and Page (1999) also used images of blood and injury to observe the effect of fear and disgust.…”

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Creating a Computerized Instrument for the Assessment of Blood-Injury-Injection Phobia

2019

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A new computerized instrument (the Multimedia Behavioral Avoidance Test, or MBAT) for blood-injury-injection phobia (BII) assessment is presented. Analogous stimuli such as images and videos can also elicit anxiety responses; thus, they can be used for the assessment of phobia. The MBAT was applied to participants via computer, and subjective anxiety responses and time latency were recorded. The MBAT was composed of 30 original images and 30 videos related to blood, injury and injections. The MBAT was compared with other pencil-and-paper questionnaires for BII phobia, and heart rate was also measured with a pulsioximeter. The participants included 160 students and professionals (34.5% males, 65.6% females; mean 28.6 years old). The results showed a high reliability for internal consistency in images and videos (α = .98 both), with a single factor that groups all the items. In addition, the MBAT had high concurrent validity (r = .78 to .85) with the different anxiety scales compared. The MBAT diagnosed 12 participants with possible BII phobia. It is a useful instrument in the assessment of this kind of phobia because it is easier and quicker than pencil-and-paper questionnaires, it uses more objective measurements, and it is useful in planning subsequent exposure with images and videos.

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Behavioral assessment test with video (BATV): Assessment of phobic disorders

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Computer-Delivered Behavioural Avoidance Tests for Spider Phobia

Computer-Delivered Behavioural Avoidance Tests for Spider Phobia

Tratamiento de un caso de fobia a las arañas mediante exposición multimedia y progresiva

Creating a Computerized Instrument for the Assessment of Blood-Injury-Injection Phobia

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