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                                                                                         Service · Integrity · Compassion

	Problems:
	Persistent excessive or unreasonable fear of specific object or situations		Avoidance, fear or anxious anticipation of encountering the phobic stimulus interferes significantly with the person’s daily routine, occupational functioning or social life or if the person is markedly distressed about having the phobia
	Concerns about losing control, panicking and fainting when exposed to the feared object

	Goals:
	Develop reasonable exposure strategies		Reduce the avoidance behavior and anxious anticipation of the phobic stimuli
	Reduce fears so that patient can resume normal daily functioning both at home and at work		Achieve greater understanding and insight into maladaptive cognitive and behavioral processes that only fuels the fears
	Objectives:
	Patient will cooperate with psychiatric and psychological evaluations and follow through with recommendations		Patient will verbalize positive, healthy and rational self-talk that reduces fear and allows encounter with avoided stimuli
	Patient will comply with medication prescribed to alleviate anxiety		Patient will develop cognitive and behavioral strategies to reduce irrational fears
	Patient will construct a hierarchy of situations that increasingly evoke anxiety		Patient will develop and utilize relaxation strategies to reduce symptoms
	Patient will cooperate with systematic desensitization to the anxiety provoking stimulus or situations