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Peer reviewedDeffenbacher, Jerry L.; Suinn, Richard M. – Counseling Psychologist, 1988
Provides detailed information on systematic desensitization, describing in detail the procedures of imaginal desensitization. Briefly describes variants of group, in vivo, massed, and self-administered desensitization. Outlines guidelines for appropriate selection and use of desensitization and presents sampling of research findings with diversity…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Counseling Techniques
Peer reviewedDeffenbacher, Jerry L. – Counseling Psychologist, 1988
Considers counseling techniques of systematic desensitization, anxiety management training, systematic rational restructuring, and stress inoculation. Identifies unique and complimentary strengths of each technique with clients manifesting different types of anxiety. Provides both conceptual and research approaches to such an identification. (NB)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Modification, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Cognitive Restructuring
Peer reviewedMalkiewich, Leslie E.; Merluzzi, Thomas V. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1980
Analyses failed to confirm the matching model. Superiority of treatment effects relative to the controls was obtained, with rational restructuring emerging as a referred treatment. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Concept Formation, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Client Relationship
Leffingwell, R. Jon – 1980
Contemporary research on test anxiety shows that there are a number of sources of such anxiety: expectations of parents or teachers; association of grades with personal worth; fear of alienating parents, family, or friends; a feeling of lack of control over one's life. This paper discusses these sources of test anxiety, reviews some of the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Apathy, Behavior Modification
