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Yamagami, Toshiko – Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 1971
Four variations of the thought stopping technique were applied to a color naming obsession. After 17 treatment sessions the frequency of this obsession had decreased by 95 percent, and a month later it was entirely absent. It did not recur in the course of a seven month followup period. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Methods
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Serber, Michael; Nelson, Philip – Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 1971
Desensitization or assertive training or both were applied to hospitalized schizophrenics who displayed phobias, lack of interpersonal assertiveness, or both. In none of the patients did desensitization produce any reduction of avoidance of the feared object. The assertive training produces minimal improvement in two patients. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Desensitization
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Gershman, Louis; Stedman, James M. – Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 1971
In a case of claustrophobia and in another with fears of flying, Japanese defense activities of the Karate type proved to be effective counter conditioners of anxiety. They were used in the former case in vivo and in the later case both in imagination and in vivo. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
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Wolpe, Joseph – Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 1971
A woman who had from childhood suffered from neurotic anxieties of an interpersonal kind had for 10 years been plagued with insistent and fruitless negative thoughts about herself. This transcript deals mainly with her objections to the technique of thought stopping and the efforts that were made to overcome them. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories
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Myers, James J., Jr.; Deibert, Alvin N. – Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 1971
An 11 year old Blind, Retarded male, was treated for self abusive behavior by creating a feeding response incompatible with it. When head beating had been eliminated at feeding time, additional techniques, involving rewards, were used to extend its elimination beyond the eating situation. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Blindness