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Deffenbacher, Jerry L.; And Others – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1990
Assigned college students (n=48) to anger reduction for cognitive-relaxation coping skills counseling group; time-limited, anger-focused, process-oriented counseling group; or uncounseled control group. Found that both counseling groups led to significant reductions on trait, state, and person-specific measures of anger and on nontargeted general…
Descriptors: Anger, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, College Students

Gerstein, Lawrence H.; Hotelling, Kathy – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1987
Examined effects of 4-month or 9-month multidimensional therapy group on bulimic women. Results suggest that participants altered behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and thoughts related to bingeing, purging, and physical appearance and developed more adaptive life skills. Decreases in bingeing and purging were maintained after treatment; no…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitude Change, Behavior Modification, Bulimia
Hayes, Richard L.; Kameguchi, Kenji – 2001
This paper describes the development of comprehensive psycho-educational groups for students in a secondary school attached to a Japanese university. Although deliberate application of psychological knowledge to self-empowerment has been a central component of counseling programs in the United States, such practice is only now emerging in Japan.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cooperation, Empowerment, Foreign Countries
Cerio, James E. – 1982
This paper presents a new format for conducting workshops for college students on eliminating self-defeating behaviors, based on a psychoeducational approach. The content of each of the eight lunch-hour sessions is described including the learned nature of self-defeating behaviors and the tracking identification and changing of such behaviors…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Change Strategies, College Students, Counseling Techniques

Vinson, Michael L. – 1980
The effect on anxiety of a behaviorally-oriented treatment, Anxiety Management Training (AMT), was investigated with a sample of college students (N=23). The treatment was based upon the techniques originally used by Richardson, Suinn, and Meichenbaum, and consisted of three principal elements: relaxation training, cognitive-restructuring, and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification