Fear of flying: Evaluation of an exposure treatment program

We present the outcomes of a mixed gradual exposure treatment (imaginary-in vivo) applied to fear of flying. Auxiliary coping strategies were applied too (brief relaxation and thought stopping). The program has been applied t o 37 patients (treatment group) and 36 patients composed the waiting contro l group. An extreme non-phobic group formed by 46 people was evaluated too. The therapeutic success has been evaluated by means of self-report scales and by recording psychophysiological variables in an analogous situation. T he results showed that positive and lasting effects are obtained by a most of phobic people, and also that 40.5% of treated individuals showed a simil ar behavior to that of the extreme non-phobic group.