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Wolff, Jason J.; Symons, Frank J. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
Background: Fear of medical procedures in general and needles in particular can be a difficult clinical challenge to providing effective health care for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Methods: A changing criterion design was used to examine graduated exposure treatment for blood-injury-injection phobia in an adult…
Descriptors: Fear, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Adults
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Travis, Robert W.; Sturmey, Peter – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
Background: Previous studies of anger management in people with intellectual disability failed to control for the effects of the number of provocative stimuli presented and lacked direct measures of behaviour and treatment integrity data. Methods: This experiment systematically assessed and presented discriminative stimuli for aggressive…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Modification, Adults, Behavior Problems
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Sams, Kathryn; Collins, Suzanne; Reynolds, Shirley – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
Background: There is a need to develop and adapt therapies for use with people with learning disabilities who have mental health problems. Aims: To examine the performance of people with learning disabilities on two cognitive therapy tasks (emotion recognition and discrimination among thoughts, feelings and behaviours). We hypothesized that…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Mental Retardation, Intelligence Quotient, Cognitive Restructuring