water fear
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water fear (countable and uncountable, plural water fears)
- The fear of water, hydrophobia.
- 1921, Harold Melvin Stanford, The Standard Reference Work:
- Both men and animals afflicted with rabies dread the appearance of water or any other liquid; hence the term, hydrophobia, or water-fear.
- 1926, Principles of General Pharmacy and Chemistry:
- Those colloids which absorb considerable water are hydrophyllic colloids, that is, water-fond colloids; while those which absorb but little or none are hydrophobic colloids, that is, water-fear colloids.
- 1947, The Journal of Health and Physical Education, volume 18, page 304:
- One type of water fear harbored by many youngsters is directly traceable to an unfortunate childhood experience.
- 1958, Louisiana Folklore Miscellany - Volume 1, Issues 3-4, page 54:
- This symptom which gave rise to the term hydrophobia or water-fear is the foundation of the cold water "cure."
- 2001, Michael W. Vasey, Mark R. Dadds, The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety, page 195:
- This latter possibility seems particularly plausible from the perspective of the nonassociative model of water fear described previously.
- 2004, John R. Weisz, Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents:
- The Lewis (1974) study of water fears also tested another variant of the modeling approach, participant modeling, in which the model carries out the feared activity with the fearful person.
- 2006, Michelle Genevieve Craske, Dirk Hermans, Debora Vansteenwegen, Fear and Learning: From Basic Processes to Clinical Implications:
- We are not aware of any careful cross-cultural or developmental work showing that water fear is innate, however.
- 2013, Benjamin B. Lahey, Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, volume 1, page 310:
- Although the modeling-plus-participation treatment was the most effective in the reduction of water fears, both modeling alone and participation alone were more effective than a no-treatment control condition.