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One-Session Treatment (OST) is a massed, cognitive-behavioral exposure therapy that progresses over the course of a single, 3-hour session and was developed by Öst (1987, Scandinavian Journal of Behavior Therapy, 16, 175–184; 1989, One-session treatment for specific phobias. Behavior research and therapy, 27, 1–7; 1997, Phobias: A handbook of theory, research, and treatment, 227–247). Though originally developed as an intervention with adults, the adaptation and use of OST with children and adolescents have progressed substantially in the last decade or so.
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Davis, T.E., Ollendick, T.H., Reuther, E.T., Munson, M.S. (2012). One-Session Treatment: Principles and Procedures with Children and Adolescents. In: Davis III, T., Ollendick, T., Öst, LG. (eds) Intensive One-Session Treatment of Specific Phobias. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3253-1_5
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