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Duff, Desiree C.; Levine, Timothy R.; Beatty, Michael J.; Woolbright, Jessica; Park, Hee Sun – Communication Education, 2007
Research investigating public speaking anxiety treatments is subject to demand effects. This study tests the relative effectiveness of systematic desensitization (SD) and multiple treatment method (MT) containing visualization therapy against no-treatment and credible placebo controls. Data (N = 238) were collected at six points in a public…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Coping, Desensitization, Anxiety

Lent, Robert W.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1981
The efficacy of cue-controlled desensitization and systematic rational restructuring was compared with a placebo method and a waiting-list control in reducing public speaking and nontargeted anxieties. Cue-controlled desensitization was generally more effective than the other groups in reducing subjective speech anxiety. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Comparative Analysis, Coping
Rosen, Larry D. – 1988
A 3-year project was undertaken to develop, implement, and evaluate a program to reduce computerphobic reactions among postsecondary education students. The Model Computerphobia Reduction Program was designed to screen potential computerphobic students in their computer courses at the beginning of a semester and invite them to participate in brief…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis

Snyder, Arden L.; Deffenbacher, Jerry L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Relaxation as self-control and desensitization were compared to a wait-list control in reduction of rest and other anxieties. Active treatments differed significantly from the control treatment. Subjects in both treatments reported less debilitating test anxiety, whereas desensitization subjects showed greater facilitating test anxiety. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, College Students, Comparative Analysis

Deffenbacher, Jerry L.; Shelton, John L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1978
Effects of systematic desensitization and anxiety management training in reducing test anxiety and generalizing to other anxieties were compared. Both desensitization and anxiety management training produced significant reduction of text anxiety, but by follow-up, anxiety management training produced significantly more test-anxiety reduction on…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Behavior Change, College Students

Deffenbacher, Jerry L.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1980
Anxiety management training and self-control desensitization effectively reduced debilitating test anxiety and increased facilitating test anxiety. Follow-up demonstrated maintenance of debilitating test anxiety reduction. Subjects receiving treatment had significantly higher psychology grades. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Comparative Analysis, Counseling Techniques
Bernal, Guillermo; Wisocki, Patricia A. – 1975
The relative effects of imagerial covert rehearsal with attentional shifts and the use of an independent reinforcing agent in a covert reinforcement therapy were compared. A 17-year-old female student, requesting treatment for a snake phobia, served as the subject. The phobia was measured along four dimensions: behavioral approaches to a live…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies

Moleski, Richard; Tosi, Donald J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
The present study examined the efficacy of rational-emotive psychotherapy and systematic desensitization in the treatment of stuttering. Both therapies, making extensive use of in vivo behavioral assignments, were examined under the presence and absence of in vivo tasks. Results show that rational-emotive therapy was more effective in reducing…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitudes, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems

Rosen, Gerald M.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
Highly anxious self-referred snake phobics received either (a) therapist-administered desensitization, (b) self-administered desensitization with weekly therapist phone calls, (c) totally self-administered desensitization, (d) self-administered double-blind placebo control, or (e) no treatment. Pretreatment to posttreatment measures revealed…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitudes, Behavior Change, Change Strategies

Borkovec, T. D.; Mathews, Andrew M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Compared efficacy of nondirective therapy, coping desensitization, and cognitive therapy in treatment of generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder. Clients received one treatment and 12 sessions of progressive relaxation training. Results indicated that subjects showed significant and continued improvement on self-report questionnaire, daily…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cognitive Restructuring, Comparative Analysis, Coping

Chang-Liang, Rosa; Denney, Douglas R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
Text-anxious students who were high or low in general anxiety were treated with applied relaxation, systematic desensitization, relaxation only, or no treatment (control). The results indicated that applied relaxation was more effective in reducing anxiety than relaxation only and no treatment on measures of general anxiety and measures of test…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, College Students

Deffenbacher, Jerry L.; Michaels, Ann C. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1981
A 15-month follow-up study found that anxiety management training and self-control desensitization groups continued to report significantly less debilitating test anxiety than the control group. Anxiety management training and self-control desensitization groups also reported significantly less nontargeted anxiety than controls on both measures of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Coping

Melnick, Joseph; Russell, Ronald W. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
This study compared the effectiveness of systematic desensitization and the directed experience hypnotic technique in reducing self-reported test anxiety and increasing the academic performance of test-anxious undergraduates (N=36). The results are discussed as evidence for systematic desensitization as the more effective treatment in reducing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Behavior Change, College Students

Altmaier, Elizabeth Mitchell; Woodward, Margaret – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1981
Studied test-anxious college students (N=43) who received either vicarious desensitization, study skills training, or both treatments; there was also a no-treatment control condition. Self-report measures indicated that vicarious desensitization resulted in lower test and trait anxiety than study skills training alone or no treatment. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Audiovisual Aids, College Students

Auerbach, Alan – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1981
Reports on two do-it-yourself treatment programs for dealing with stage fright. One program followed a systematic desensitization paradigm; the other was a handout listing 16 strategies for understanding stage fright. Higher ratings were given to the handout strategy. A list of the 16 strategies is included. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Coping
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