Module 7: Challenging Avoidance and Safety Behaviours
Overview
This CBT handout from the Centre for Clinical Interventions defines avoidance and safety behaviors within the context of health anxiety, explaining how these coping mechanisms provide short-term relief but reinforce long-term fear. It introduces graded exposure as a method to challenge these behaviors and includes worksheets for clients to identify their specific triggers, plan goals, and construct an 'exposure stepladder.' The resource is designed for individuals seeking to understand and gradually confront the situations they typically avoid due to health-related worries.
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@misc{allodium:27350bad40ad4daa,
title = {Module 7: Challenging Avoidance and Safety Behaviours},
organization = {Centre for Clinical Interventions},
url = {https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/CCI/Consumer-Modules/Helping-Health-Anxiety/Helping-Health-Anxiety---07---Challenging-Avoidance-and-Safety-Behaviours.pdf}
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TY - GEN TI - Module 7: Challenging Avoidance and Safety Behaviours PB - Centre for Clinical Interventions UR - https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/CCI/Consumer-Modules/Helping-Health-Anxiety/Helping-Health-Anxiety---07---Challenging-Avoidance-and-Safety-Behaviours.pdf ER -
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Module 7: Challenging Avoidance and Safety Behaviours. (n.d.). Centre for Clinical Interventions. https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/CCI/Consumer-Modules/Helping-Health-Anxiety/Helping-Health-Anxiety---07---Challenging-Avoidance-and-Safety-Behaviours.pdf
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