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Student Opinion: What Are You Afraid Of?
A great resource for informational texts as well as writing topics, the New York Times website provides writing prompts about various news articles through The Learning Network. This particular worksheet provides a very short...
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Fears and Phobias
Take the fear out of reading with this series of three lessons from HotWire Magazine about fears and phobias. Each lesson plan contains pre-reading and post-reading activities aimed at improving learners' reading comprehension skills...
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Puzzle By Phobias: Word Search
For this word search worksheet, students search for scientific terminology for phobias. These are the root words that eventually became English words for common phobias.
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Confidence
Young scholars explore communication and confidence issues. In this communication and confidence lesson, students discuss fear, stage fright, phobia's in relation to the planks of confidence. Young scholars view a related film. Students...
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Thorough overview of GAD. Includes information on symptoms, prevention, treatment, and more.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Do Fears Change With Age?
Although some of us may not like to admit it, everyone's afraid of something. Big dogs, thunderstorms, public speaking, heights: what are you most afraid of? Do you think grown-ups have the same fears as kids? The goal of this project is...
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The Phobia List: Treatment for Phobias
This site talks about different ways to cure someone of his phobia, and how not everyone reacts the same way to the same treatment.
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Trauma Information Pages: Anxiety
This article discusses types of anxiety disorders, phobias, symptoms of anxiety, treatments, and when there is a need to seek help.
Mental Health America
Mental Health America: Phobias
An overview of phobias. This resource lists types of phobias, and discusses treatment options (behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy).
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Kids Health: Figuring Out Phobias
A phobia is "an extremely strong fear of a situation or thing." Phobias don't just last a few minutes, they are fears that stay with you. A kid who has a phobia of dogs will go out of his way to avoid any situation that involves his...
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Kids Health: Being Afraid
This easy-to-understand guide reveals what anxiety is and what it is not. Find out what some of the ways to deal with anxiety are, and what causes some people to be especially anxious.
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Healthy Place: What Are Social Phobias?
Easy conversational language discussion of the enigmatic origins of phobias and encouraging news for phobia sufferers.
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Social Phobia & Social Anxiety Association
This resource describes what social phobias are, who has them, and what percent of the population has them. This in-depth site has all kinds of information pertaining to social disorders.
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Kids Health: Being Afraid
Everyone is afraid of something. Maybe you're afraid of heights, your friend might be scared of the big monster that lives in his closet, and your little sister is spooked by circus clowns. We all have different fears, and they may even...
University of Washington
University of Washington: Neurological Disorder Resources
Eighteen different categories of mental illness are a part of this resource. Each category of illness has multiple links allowing for a very thorough investigation of each disorder.
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The Phobia List: Class Categories
This site describes three different categories of phobias, and explains what each phobia consists of. It also talks about what phobias are in general along with the diagnosis for a phobia.
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Temple: Adult Anxiety Clinic: Social Anxiety
This site talks about what a social phobia is, gives a check list to see if you may have a social phobia, and has treatment for it.
Remedy Health Media
Health Central: Phobias
Health Central library offers information on what a phobia is and on specific phobias and their treatments.
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The Phobia List: How Phobias Are Named
This site talks about where the name for phobia came from, and how each phobia gets it's name.
New York Times
New York Times: Health Guide: Phobia
[Free Registration/Login Required] One-page overview of the causes, symptoms, and treatment of simple, specific phobias.