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Peer reviewedGlasgow, Russell E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Evaluated a self-help treatment manual consisting of stimulus control, rapid smoking, and coping relaxation techniques. While the overall program was moderately effective, groups did not differ in percentage of baseline smoking or in number of subjects abstinent at posttreatment. Implications for self-help smoking reduction manuals are discussed.…
Descriptors: Adults, Coping, Counselor Client Relationship, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedGreen, Kenneth D.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1981
Compared progressive relaxation training (PRT), self-induced relaxation training (SRT), and a control condition on measures of tonic physiological arousal and phasic physiological and subjective reactions to fearful stimuli. Concluded that live PRT is the treatment of choice for reducing tonic physiological arousal and attenuating subjective…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Comparative Analysis, Counseling Techniques, Fear
Peer reviewedKirsch, Irving; Henry, David – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Speech-anxious students were assigned to self-administered treatment conditions: (1) systematic desensitization, (2) desensitization with meditation replacing progressive relaxation, and (3) meditation only. Treatment manuals included coping-skill instructions. Treatments were equally effective in reducing anxiety and produced a greater reduction…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Coping, Desensitization, Independent Study
