Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children With Dental Anxiety

Exclusion Criteria

• •Full points on both child and parent versions of the picture guided behavioral approach test. A maximum score of 17 means that both the child and the parent assess that the child can manage the most challenging situations in dentistry
• •A score of 31 or less on both children and parent version of CFSS-DS and do not fulfill criteria for intra-oral injection phobia
• •Already have or according to DAWBA and/or telephone interview by psychologist likely to fulfill criteria for a neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosis
• •Other psychiatric disorders such as severe depression, eating disorder or self harm behavior that need treatment prior to dentistry related specific phobia
• •The participant is undergoing or has planned psychiatric/ psychological examination
• •The participant has current/planed psychological treatments
• •Stressful life experiences during the past 12 months, such as divorce in the family, somatic illness that parent or the psychologist see as an obstacle in the treatment
• •Have received cognitive behavioral treatment for dental anxiety or needle phobia during the past three years