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Direct linkRegehr, Cheryl; Alaggia, Ramona; Dennis, Jane; Pitts, Annabel; Saini, Michael – Research on Social Work Practice, 2013
Objectives: This article presents a systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing distress in adult victims of rape and sexual violence. Method: Studies were eligible for the review if the assignment of study participants to experimental or control groups was by random allocation or parallel cohort design. Results:…
Descriptors: Rape, Sexual Abuse, Adults, Victims of Crime
Download full textHimle, Michael B.; Woods, Douglas W.; Bunaciu, Liviu – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2008
The current study evaluated the effects of tokens delivered on differential reinforcement of zero-rate behavior (DRO) schedules or noncontingently on tic suppression in 4 children with tics. Tic frequency was lower in 3 of 4 children when tokens were delivered contingent on the absence of tics than when tokens were delivered noncontingently.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Reinforcement, Contingency Management, Incidence
Kalkan, Melek; Ersanli, Ercumend – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2009
The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral marriage enrichment program to decrease the level of the dysfunctional attitudes of the couples. Forty participants with dysfunctional attitudes determined by The Dysfunctional Attitude Scale were randomly chosen as experimental and control groups. The results of the…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Marriage, Control Groups, Cognitive Restructuring
Greenwald, Mark K. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2008
A positive reinforcement contingency increased opioid abstinence during outpatient dose tapering (4, 2, then 0 mg/day during Weeks 1 through 3) in non-treatment-seeking heroin-dependent volunteers who had been maintained on buprenorphine (8 mg/day) during an inpatient research protocol. The control group (n = 12) received $4.00 for completing…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Positive Reinforcement, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Campo, Ana E.; Williams, Virginia; Williams, Redford B.; Segundo, Marisol A.; Lydston, David; Weiss, Stephen M.' – Academic Psychiatry, 2008
Objective: Sound clinical judgment is the cornerstone of medical practice and begins early during medical education. The authors consider the effect of personality characteristics (hostility, anger, cynicism) on clinical judgment and whether a brief intervention can affect this process. Methods: Two sophomore medical classes (experimental,…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Medical Education, Medical Students, Intervention
McCrary-Quarles, Audrey R. – Health Educator, 2008
This study evaluated a PowerPoint home safety (PPHS) presentation in enhancing awareness, knowledge and behavior change among senior center attendees in southern Illinois. Twelve centers were utilized as data collection sites in a pretest-posttest control group design. Through stratified randomization, centers were placed into categories (high,…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Pretests Posttests, Behavior Modification
van de Wiel, Nicolle M. H.; Matthys, Walter; Cohen-Kettenis, Peggy T.; Maassen, Gerard H.; Lochman, John E.; van Engeland, Herman – Behavior Modification, 2007
In psychotherapy, effectiveness of an experimental treatment often is compared to care as usual. However, little if any attention has been paid to the heterogeneity of care as usual. The authors examined the effectiveness of manualized behavior therapy on school-aged disruptive behavior disordered (DBD) children in everyday clinical practice. A…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Effect Size, Family Counseling, Behavior Modification
McCall, Robert B.; Green, Beth L. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2004
Research methods are tools that can be variously applied - depending on the stage of knowledge in a particular area, the type of research question being asked, and the context of the research. The field of program evaluation, critical for social policy development, often has not adequately embraced the full range of methodological tools needed to…
Descriptors: Standards, Intervention, Benchmarking, Evidence Based Practice
