Protocolo multimedia para fobias específicas

The intervention on phobias has a long tradition in the psychological discipline, where direct exposure is the technique with the most empirical evidence, although with a diversity of modalities (exposure in imagination, live, systematic desensitization, exposure through virtual reality, etc.). But the difficulties of exposure are also known, due to the rejection and abandonment that it can generate in people. As an alternative, in this work the authors present an intervention protocol based on progressive multimedia exposure, that is, using photographs, videos and simulations. It is a procedure that, with few and accessible technical resources, makes it easier for therapists to generate experiences of exposure to feared stimuli, with great simplicity and with scientific guarantees. The description of the multimedia progressive exposure protocol is simple and any clinician could apply it in their practice without much difficulty. This manual was born from both laboratory and clinical work, and the effectiveness of this procedure has social and ecological validity, as it quickly eliminates the difficulties for the daily life of people who had these phobias, and only between five and five are necessary. ten treatment sessions, resulting in a low number of dropouts. In this manual you can find a review on fears, phobias and anxiety, explanatory theories, available treatments and their particularities; also an evaluation section, as well as several annexes with this evaluation material. As an illustration, five clinical cases in which this protocol has been applied are presented, describing the process and its final results, and even with follow-ups of several years.