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Gerson, Paul; Lanyon, Richard I. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Desensitization, Health
Agras, W. Stewart – 1970
These findings suggest that the relative effect of the main therapeutic procedure and expectancy (defined by the presence or absence of a therapeutic rationale and instructions suggesting a positive outcome from treatment) varies with different behavioral therapies. With reinforced practice and covert sensitization the main therapeutic procedure…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Desensitization, Neurosis
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Weinman, Bernard; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1972
It is concluded that systematic desensitization or relaxation therapy is not effective in inducing assertive behavior in the male chronic schizophrenic. The treatment of choice for the older chronic male schizophrenic remains socioenvironmental therapy. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Desensitization, Emotional Disturbances
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Rappaport, Herbert – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1972
Within an experimental paradigm that simulated systematic desensitization, the effects of manipulated cognitive expectancy on avoidance behavior were evaluated. The results indicated that both overt avoidance behavior and two verbal indexes were differentially affected by expectancy and that no relationship between avoidance behavior and autonomic…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, College Students
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Bernstein, Douglas A.; Nietzel, Michael T. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1973
The data on approach to snakes provides srong support for the contention that the behavorial avoidance test is not immune to bias introduced by the operation of situational variables that have usually been allowed to vary in uncontrolled fashion in psychotherapy analogue research. Behavior of test subjects can be influenced not only in terms of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Desensitization
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Rosen, Gerald M.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
A 2-year follow-up questionnaire was sent to subjects originally tested by Rosen, Glasgow, and Barrera. Initial treatment gains for self- and therapist-directed desensitization subjects were maintained. Posttest behavior approach scores were not predictive of real-life behavioral change as reported at follow-up. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Counseling Effectiveness, Desensitization, Fear
Blum, Donna M. – Canadian Counsellor, 1972
In keeping with a learning theory approach, it is postulated that fear of examinations was a learned maladaptive pattern of behavior. Therefore, counter-conditioning through progressive relaxation and systematic desensitization was utilized to eliminate the maladaptive response in this case. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Desensitization
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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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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
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Agras, W. Stewart – Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 1971
The relationship between three behavior therapies and the experimental behavioral sciences is examined. It is concluded that behavior therapy is one of the few media within which the relevance of the experimental behavioral sciences to clinical medicine can be demonstrated. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Sciences, Desensitization
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
DeLange, Janice – 1978
The relative efficacy of systematic desensitization and assertive skill training in increasing assertive responses, reducing anxiety related to being assertive, and increasing response satisfaction, was compared to two control conditions--a placebo-control (discussion) and an assessment-control. Also investigated was the effect of the subjects'…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns
Logan, Henrietta; And Others – 1976
This investigation was conducted to determine the effect of video-taped role modeling on patient-reported level of anxiety at the beginning of dental treatment and the long term effects of the modeling tape as evidenced by appointment cancellations and failure rate. Subjects completed the state portion of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Dental Evaluation, Dentistry
Berger, Bruce A.; And Others – 1982
Prompted by data from a national survey indicating that communication apprehension (CA) was higher among pharmacy students than among the general population, West Virginia University developed a communication course especially to meet the needs of these students. The course was later modified by Auburn University. A study investigated the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research