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Bohart, Jacqueline Beau; Bergland, Bruce W. – Death Education, 1979
The object of this study was to examine the effects of in vivo systematic desensitization and systematic desensitization with symbolic modeling on college students who participated in counseling groups on death and dying. No significant differences were found between the treatment groups and control groups. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Death, Desensitization

Goldfried, Marvin R.; Goldfried, Anita Powers – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Using speech anxiety as the target behavior, this study compared two self-control desensitization procedures. Speech-anxious community residents (N=42) volunteered for participation in the program and were seen within a group context for a total of seven therapy sessions. No differential effectiveness was found between the two desensitization…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Desensitization

Hepner, Alain; Cauthen, Nelson R. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
The influence of two of the variables in Leitenberg's graduated exposure technique for treating phobias, graduated exposure and subject control of the exposure time, was investigated using 15 snake-phobic subjects. Subjective fear significantly decreased from pretesting to posttesting. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Conditioning

Esse, John T.; Wilkins, Wallace – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Assessed relative effects of therapist empathy and instructed imagination of heirarchy scenes on avoidance behavior reduction. Imagery instructions delivered in a relatively unempathetic fashion produced as much avoidance reduction as imagery instructions delivered in an empathetic manner. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Desensitization, Empathy

Zemore, Robert – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
College students were treated with either a standard or modified version of systematic desensitization. Relative to a no-treatment control group, both treatment methods produced significant reductions in both the treated and untreated fears. The implications these findings have for two alternative conceptions of systematic desensitization are…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, College Students, Desensitization

Kanfer, Frederick H.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
Forty-five youngsters rehearsed one of three types of mediating response, involving different types of sentences. Analyses revealed that different training significantly influenced duration and intensity settings, with the "competence" group generally superior to the "stimulus" and "neutral" verbalization groups. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Children, Desensitization

Israel, Allen C.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Snake- or spider-phobic subjects (N=32) were randomly assigned to one of four groups. Subjects receiving semantic desensitization therapy showed less posttest anxiety on the semantic differential than control subjects regardless of testing condition. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Counseling Effectiveness, Desensitization

Sotile, Wayne M.; And Others – Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 1977
This study investigates whether six women who previously had received 15 sessions of group systematic desensitization (SD) for their sexual anxiety would report additional treatment gains from participation in a sexual-enchantment workshop with their partners. The women reported a significant decrease in sexual anxiety. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Conditioning, Counseling Effectiveness
Denney, Douglas R.; Sullivan, Bernard J. – Journal of Counsulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
Three types of therapy were combined with two types of scenes. Spider-phobic subjects were assigned to one of the six treatment conditions or to an untreated control group. In general, (a) Desensitization and modeling therapies were equally effective; (b) modeling alone was more effective than mere exposure to the phobic object. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Conditioning, Desensitization

Richardson, Frank C.; Suinn, Richard M. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
Accelerated massed desensitization and anxiety management training were compared with standard systematic desensitization in terms of reducing self-reported test anxiety in high test-anxious college students. All three treatments significantly reduced test anxiety as compared with a waiting list control group. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Objectives

Kostka, Marion P.; Galassi, John P. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
The study compared modified versions of systematic desensitization and covert positive reinforcement to a no-treatment control condition in the reduction of test anxiety. On an anagrams performance test, the covert reinforcement and control groups were superior to the desensitization group. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Covert Response, Desensitization

Schroeder, Harold E.; Rich, Alex R. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
This study investigated the process of fear change during a course of systematic desensitization therapy. Behavioral, subjective, and physiological measures of fear were taken following each of eight therapy sessions. Changes in one fear system did not appear to be primary in initiating changes in the other fear systems. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Desensitization

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

Denney, Douglas R.; Rupert, Patricia A. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1977
Test-anxious students were assigned to four treatment groups, a placebo group, or an untreated control group. Four treatment groups resulted from combinations of two treatment rationales (active coping and passive reciprocal inhibition) and two treatment procedures (self-control and standard). Treatment groups were equally effective in reducing…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, College Students, Desensitization

Spiegler, Michael D.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
A comparison was made between the traditional counterconditioning paradigm and a self-control paradigm of systematic desensitization. College students reporting high test anxiety and indicating interest in receiving treatment were assigned to counterconditioning, self-control, or wait-list control conditions. As predicted, self-control procedures…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, College Students