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Cognitive behavioural therapy for a specific phobia of vomiting during pregnancy: a case study
- Abstract:
- Specific phobia of vomiting (SPOV) is a persistent, excessive fear of vomiting that is more prevalent in females, often begins in childhood and typically lasts 25 years before treatment is sought. It is a relatively neglected area of research, with most evidence consisting of single case studies. There are implications for the perinatal period, in particular the experience of pregnancy which for many involves symptoms of nausea and vomiting. However, there is a paucity of research on the experience of SPOV during pregnancy and currently no published treatment research. This study aimed to extend the existing literature by applying Veale’s (2009) protocol for SPOV to a pregnant client in her twenties. The intervention comprised 12 one-hour face-to-face sessions and was effective in significantly reducing anxiety (GAD-7 reduced from 7 to 0), depression (PHQ-9 reduced from 6 to 1), impaired functioning (WSAS reduced from 20 to 4) and vomiting phobia (SPOVI reduced from 40 to 0).
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/s1754470x25100421
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapist More from this journal
- Volume:
- 19
- Article number:
- e2
- Publication date:
- 2026-01-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2025-11-13
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1754-470X
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English
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2326927
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pubs:2326927
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2025-12-05
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- Allinson et al
- Copyright date:
- 2026
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- © The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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- This paper has been accepted for publication in Cognitive Behaviour Therapist. The author accepted manuscript (AAM) of this paper has been made available under the University of Oxford's Open Access Publications Policy, and a CC BY public copyright licence has been applied.
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