Management of Fear of Injections or Hypodermic Needles (Trypano-Phobia) with Brief Behaviour Technology

Trypanophobia is an extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles. This can become sometimes life-threatening, when untreated. A Brief Behaviour Technology applied for treating a married female client aged 36, a mother, who had borne three children through normal delivery, is described in this paper. She had refused to have her blood sugar level checked by a prick on one of her fingers. She never had had been exposed to a prick by the hypodermic needle. The Brief Behaviour Technology was used in a single session within a period of 45 minutes, which included: 1. Invitation of the Threatening Stimulus. 2. Long Breathing. 3. Continuous Food Intake. 4. Continuous Water Intake.  As a result of the Brief Behaviour Technology, client had voluntarily asked for a prick to check her blood sugar level.