Specific Phobia

Alternative Treatment Efficacy According to GRADE* Ranking:

Creative Art Therapy (Expressive Therapy)

Recomendation: no recommendation (there is insufficient positive evidence showing Expressive Therapy helping to reduce phobias)

Grade of Evidence: very low quality of evidence

Hypnosis:

Recommendation: weakly in favor (Hypnosis is used by therapists to help eliminate their phobias or their effects)

Grade of Evidence: low quality of evidence

Image Therapy:

Recommendation: no recommendation (There is insufficient evidence to show that Image Therapy helps reduce or treat phobias)

Grade of Evidence: low quality of evidence

Neuro-Linguistic Programming:

Recommendation: no recommendation (although a small study has shown that NLP may help with phobias, the methods used have been found to be unreliable)

Grade of Evidence: very low quality of evidence

* www.gradeworkinggroup.org

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