ABSTRACT
Despite the prevalence of fear of flying, clinical frequency and accompanying social and professional impairment, well-designed and controlled treatment outcome studies are scarce. Research reports are limited by the absence of appropriate and validated assessment tools, which makes evaluation of treatment outcomes and identification of effective elements of treatment programmes difficult. The first international conference on fear-of-flying treatment modalities in February 1996 in TarrytoWn, NY, attended by participants from over 12 countries, clarified that different kinds of unvalidated fear-of-flying self-report measures are used all over the world (van Gerwen and Diekstra, 2000).
