Help for Kids Afraid of Throwing Up or Getting Sick: Part 3 Treatment – Safety Behaviors
In the previous blog, I mentioned treating this fear (emetophobia) was two-fold. First, face the fear. This is called exposure. Second, don’t play it safe. This is called response prevention. This is third in the series on helping kids afraid of throwing up or getting sick and will make more sense if you read part 1 and part 2 before you read this. In this post I will do my best to describe response prevention and what to do about it. Response Prevention is the academic phrase for NOT doing something. When anyone gets anxious they try to fix the problem. This is the response. Ironically, [...]