{"id":4227,"date":"2024-04-30T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T09:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/?post_type=docs&p=4227"},"modified":"2024-04-30T11:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T09:18:25","password":"","slug":"phobia-scales-iapt","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/phobia-scales-iapt\/","title":{"rendered":"Phobia scales (IAPT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These are three questions that have been mandatory in the UK IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, now “NHS Talking Therapies”). I think they are also sometimes called “the phobia questions”. I see them as “trigger items” rather than scales: prompts that something might be a significant issue for the person rather than scales whose numbers should be taken very seriously in psychometric terms for comparing individuals. I don’t say disrespectfully: I see the risk items in the CORE measures as very similar and if they work for the client and practitioner as cues that lead into constructive conversations about potentially shame\/guilt laden topics that might otherwise not surface in a typically time pressured initial meeting that’s all well and good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Here are the questions (from here as it happens: a quick search on the internet and in the IAPT documentation has failed to give me any clarity about the origins and possible copyright on these “scales”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So they tap into social anxieties leading to phobic avoidance, panic and specific phobias. I haven’t found any information about what scores practitioners are supposed to take as triggers but I would guess that people are not unreasonably expected to use common sense and experience in starting a conversation out of the scores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try also<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

IAPT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Mentioned briefly in Chapter 4!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

None.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

First created 30.iv.24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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