Cory Ackland
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96 appearances
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first heard Mar 2019
last heard Mar 2019
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You know, someone with fear of flying that actually has no desire to travel may not consider it a problem until
their son moves overseas and all of a sudden this creates a real issue with being able to to visit him.
So it's those sorts of things that change and actually make people realise that treatment is necessary.
So what's the general approach to treatment?
Treatment looks at being able to get on the same page with the client in terms of what is maintaining their anxiety and also explaining to them what that anxiety response is and get them to understand that it's actually not problematic to feel those feelings and that they are in fact manageable.
Treatment items will include controlled breathing, identifying the particular thoughts and being able to correct them if they are unhelpfully creating that anxiety and they can be corrected because they are irrational or inaccurate or what have you.
And then it's about designing a behavioural plan, which is usually looking at exposure, being able to develop this plan and get a starting point as to what things we can begin to expose to and move our way up that hierarchy to meet our goals.
Exactly right.
That the situation that they predicted isn't going to play out like that, and that any anxiety they feel in that situation they can manage.
Treat that?
Certainly.
So the interesting thing about a fear of flying is a lot of our phobias are actually exacerbated in a plane environment.
People with a fear of heights, people with claustrophobia, people with fear of vomit or social concerns, a lot of issues play up on a plane.
But our fear of flying, of course, is mainly looking at people with safety concerns.
We recognize that a lot of their concerns are around.
Around not knowing what's going on, how a plane stays in the air, or what turbulence is when that feels quite alarming and feels like something bad's gonna happen.
So part of that program will see them actually sit down with a commercially trained pilot and be given a lot of facts that they can then use to challenge their previous thoughts about that plane environment.
And then when we look at beginning the actual exposure part of the flying course, it might start by looking at planes in the sky and making sure that what we're thinking about those planes in the sky is appropriate.
A typical example might be someone who looks at a plane and thinks, oh my gosh, that's terrible, I could never do that.
And we would want to be challenging that with some nice plain facts, such as,
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