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Increasing the Accuracy of Self-recording in Speech-Anxious Under-graduates Through the Use of Self-monitoring Training and Reliability Enhancement Procedures
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Hamilton, Scott B.; Bornstein, Philip H. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Undergraduate students, (N=28), participating in a speech anxiety treatment program, served as subjects in a study designed to evaluate procedures for improbing the accuracy of self-recording. Self-monitored speeches were unobtrusively recorded to enable comparisons between the number of disfluencies that were self-recorded and the number actually…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Counseling Services, Research Projects, Self Control
Detrimental Effects of a Self-reward Contracting Program on Subjects' Involvement in Self-administered Desensitization
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Barrera, Manuel Jr.; Rosen, Gerald M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Assesses a self-reward contracting procedure intended to facilitate completion of self-administered desensitization. Self-referred snake phobics received either (a) self-administered desensitization; (b) self-administered desensitization with self-reward contracting; or (c) a self-administered placebo with self-reward contracting. Results show the…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Counseling Effectiveness, Desensitization, Operant Conditioning
Self-Modification of Depression
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Tharp, Roland G.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
Discusses the effectiveness in four case studies of group instruction (pretraining) in the methods and principles of self-modification as an economical and beneficial offering for individuals suffering emotional as well as overt behavioral problems. (Author/PC)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Emotional Adjustment, Individual Development