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Welcome to FearFighter


	How does FearFighter work?

FearFighter helps you to work out exactly what brings on your fear, thus you can learn how to face your fear until it subsides. This is called "exposure therapy", i.e, you face your fears for long enough to get used to them.

But you may be thinking " But how does it really work?".

FearFighter (FF) consists of 9 steps that needs to be worked through one by one in order to obtain the greatest benefits. Like a Therapist, FearFighter (FF) asks you to return every week to report on how you've been doing and you can ask it to print out questionnaires and graphs of your own progress. It guides users through CBT as much as a therapist does and the following describes the 9 steps that a user must accomplish for greater benefits.

Step 1: Welcome to FearFighter introduces the system, asks users to rate their problem on the Fear Questionnaire (FQ) and Work & Social Adjustment Scale (WSA), and asks about suicidal feelings and alcohol misuse.

Step 2: How to Beat Fear explains the principles of CBT with case examples. Patients are asked to keep a daily record of the triggers of their phobia.

Step 3: Problem Sorting helps patients identify the triggers for their fear using the information they provide, shows them scenarios relevant to their problem, and helps users to personalise their triggers and rate them on a 0-8 scale.

Step 4: How to Get a Helper explains the value of recruiting a CBT co-therapist and gives hints on how to find one.

Step 5: Setting Goals guides the user through the process of setting good goals and tests them. Users record and rate these on the system and can print personalised homework diaries.

Step 6: Managing anxiety offers a menu of coping strategies for use during CBT homework.

Step 7: Rehearsing Goals guides patients on how to practise personal coping strategies during both imagined and live CBT homework.

Step 8: Carrying On reviews progress with the help of graphs, allows new goals to be devised, and offers feedback and advice.

Step 9: Troubleshooting offers a menu of tips on overcoming common sticking points in treatment.

Across Steps 1-9: FF includes the Computerised Outcome Resource Monitor system to yield progress data and graphs for individual FF users (linked to personal identifiers only locally, not centrally)

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