Worksheet for Overcoming Driving Phobia
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HappierTherapy
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The Happier Therapy editorial team is made up of Masters and PhD counselling psychologists. Each worksheet is created by a team member with exposure to and experience in the subject matter. The worksheet then gets reviewed by a more senior editorial member. This is someone with extensive knowledge of the subject matter and highly cited published material.
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What is the theory behind this Worksheet for Overcoming Driving Phobia?
Driving Phobia also known as Amaxophobia refers to excessive anxiety and fear related to driving or riding to the point of hampering one’s daily functioning. The intensity can vary from individual to individual such as someone may be excessively fearful of even thinking about being in a vehicle while someone else may be able to ride in one with a person they trust. Virtual reality exposure therapy has shown promise in recent research in overcoming driving phobia.
How will the worksheet help?
This worksheet can help individuals working on overcoming their driving phobia to make a ‘fear hierarchy’. This list will contain situations related to their specific driving or riding fears written in the order of least to most anxiety provoking. The therapist can work with the individual to fill out the worksheet. This is a crucial step before devising an exposure therapy treatment plan.
How to use the worksheet?
This worksheet can be used to determine an individual’s fear hierarchy related to their driving phobia to plan exposure therapy. Work with the individual to list down situations pertaining to their driving and riding fears from least feared to most feared giving each a rating on a scale from 1 – 10.
