One-Session Treatment of Specific Phobias in Children: Recent Developments and a Systematic Review.

@article{Davis2019OneSessionTO,
  title={One-Session Treatment of Specific Phobias in Children: Recent Developments and a Systematic Review.},
  author={Thompson E Davis and Thomas H Ollendick and Lars-G{\"o}ran {\"O}st},
  journal={Annual review of clinical psychology},
  year={2019},
  volume={15},
  pages={
          233-256
        }
}
One-Session Treatment is a well-established evidence-based treatment for specific phobias in youths that incorporates reinforcement, cognitive challenges, participant modeling, psychoeducation, and skills training into a single, massed session of graduated exposure. This review begins by briefly examining the phenomenology, etiology, epidemiology, and assessment of specific phobias and then pivots to a description of One-Session Treatment. We examine the use of One-Session Treatment with… 
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