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Bolocofsky, David N.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1985
Subjects (N=109) completed a behavioral weight-management program either with or without the addition of hypnosis. Both interventions resulted in significant weight reduction. At the eight-month and two-year follow-ups, the hypnosis clients showed significant additional weight loss and were more likely to have achieved and maintained their…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Eating Habits, Hypnosis

Barabasz, Arreed; Barabasz, Marianne – Child Study Journal, 2000
Presents details of Instant Alert Hypnosis procedure as an adjunct to neurotherapy in the treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Discusses AD/HD diagnostic issues, demographics, traditional treatments, neurological basis, EEG assessment, implications for the use of hypnosis, and the efficacy and promise of neurotherapy with and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Modification, Children, Electroencephalography

Anderson, Kathryn; Barabasz, Marianne; Barabasz, Arreed; Warner, Dennis – Child Study Journal, 2000
Tested use of instant alert hypnosis on 16 children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. Found that EEG beta-theta ratio means were significantly higher in trials of neurotherapy combined with alert hypnosis than neurotherapy alone. Beta was significantly enhanced, whereas theta was inhibited. Identified improved treatment efficacy and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Modification, Children, Electroencephalography

Dyck, Richard Van; Spinhoven, Philip – Behavior Modification, 1997
Explores whether a client's preference for a certain therapy effects treatment efficacy. Treatment of 64 agoraphobic patients with either exposure in vivo or exposure combined with hypnosis show that, although patients' preference clearly shifted in favor of a combined therapy approach, no effect of preference on outcome was evident. (RJM)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Client Attitudes (Human Services), Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques
Milling, Leonard S.; Reardon, John M.; Carosella, Gina M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006
The mediator role of response expectancies and the moderator role of hypnotic suggestibility were evaluated in the analogue treatment of pain. Approximately 1,000 participants were assessed for hypnotic suggestibility. Later, as part of a seemingly unrelated experiment, 188 of these individuals were randomly assigned to distraction,…
Descriptors: Pain, Expectation, Responses, Narcotics
Bryant, Richard A.; Moulds, Michelle L.; Guthrie, Rachel M.; Nixon, Reginald D. V. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
This research represents the first controlled treatment study of hypnosis and cognitive- behavioral therapy (CBT) of acute stress disorder (ASD). Civilian trauma survivors (N = 87) who met criteria for ASD were randomly allocated to 6 sessions of CBT, CBT combined with hypnosis (CBT-hypnosis), or supportive counseling (SC). CBT comprised exposure,…
Descriptors: Therapy, Hypnosis, Cognitive Restructuring, Anxiety

Kirsch, Irving; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1995
Performed a meta-analysis on 18 studies in which a cognitive-behavioral therapy was compared with the same therapy supplemented by hypnosis. Results indicated that hypnosis substantially enhanced treatment outcome, even though there were few procedural differences between the hypnotic and nonhypnotic treatments. Effects seemed particularly…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Restructuring, Comparative Analysis

Hurley, John D. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1980
College students were randomly assigned to one of four groups: hypnotic treatment, biofeedback treatment, trophotropic treatment, and control. Results indicated hypnosis was more effective in lowering anxiety levels. With regard to increasing ego strength, both the hypnotic and biofeedback training groups proved to be significant. Presented at the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Modification, College Students, Comparative Analysis

Kirsch, Irving – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
In a meta-analysis of the effect of adding hypnosis to cognitive-behavioral treatments for weight reduction, additional data were obtained from authors of two previous studies, and computational inaccuracies in the previous meta-analyses were corrected. Discusses findings. Correlational analyses indicated that the benefits of hypnosis increased…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Counseling, Dietetics

Allison, David B.; Faith, Myles S. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
A meta-analysis for six weight-loss studies comparing the efficacy of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) alone to CBT plus hypnotherapy. Notes that "the addition of hypnosis substantially enhanced treatment outcome." Concludes that the addition of hypnosis to CBT for weight loss results in, at most, a small enhancement of treatment…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Counseling