Generalization of the effects of exposure treatments for phobias: A single case study.

Investigated generalization effects of exposure treatment of phobias in a multiple-baseline design with a 20-yr-old female who presented with fear of death (FOD), fear of losing control of herself (FLC), and excessive vulnerability to criticism (VTC). As predicted, treatment of FOD led to some improvement in the FLC but not in the VTC. Treatment of the FOD was associated with a worsening of 1 part of the VTC; treatment of the VTC led to a partial relapse of the FOD and FLC. Findings are explained in terms of conditioned cue and associative network models of the mental representation of fears. (20 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)