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Leitenberg, Harold; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
In the context of a "reinforced practice" treatment paradigm, the present study experimentally analyzed whether or not feedback superimposed upon contingent praise would have an additive therapeutic effect. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Desensitization, Feedback, Positive Reinforcement

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

Kowitt, Michael R.; Garske, John P. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Investigated the effects of therapy modality and self-disclosure tendency and gender. High N=40 and 40 low scorers on a modified self-disclosure questionnaire were asked to rate audiotapes of simulated therapy sessions on several dimensions. High self-disclosers preferred client-centered therapy and low self-disclosers preferred systematic…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Desensitization, Higher Education, Psychotherapy

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

Friedman, Meredith L.; Dies, Robert R. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
Results from this study showed that external subjects provided with counseling and systematic desensitization felt that they retained too much control of therapy, while internals generally indicated an optional amount of control in counseling. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Counseling, Desensitization
Edie, Cecil A. – 1971
Anxiety management training (AMT), developed by Suinn and Richardson, is a short-term treatment procedure for alleviating a variety of manifestations of anxiety. It is based on the theory that anxiety or fear responses themselves can become discriminative stimuli and that clients can be conditioned to respond to those stimuli with antagonistic…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories

Denney, Douglas R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
Two variations of desensitization therapy for reducing test anxiety were studied, active desensitization in which the client describes his visualizations of the scenes and vicarious desensitization in which the client merely observes the desensitization treatment of another test anxious client. The relaxation treatment which emphasized application…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Objectives

McManus, Marianne – 1973
The fear of speaking before a group affects a high percentage of American adults. The effectiveness of an audiotape desensitization program was compared to conventional therapist-led group desensitization and no treatment for the modification of speech and communication anxiety behaviors. All desensitization treated subjects demonstrated…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, College Students, Counseling Services

Slutsky, Jeffrey M.; Allen, George J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
After participating in a public speaking situation that allowed collection of self-report, physiological, and behavioral manifestations of anxiety, 67 subjects were randomly assigned to either desensitization, "T scope" therapy, or no treatment. Desensitization reduced public speaking anxiety in both contexts, whereas the placebo was effective…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Objectives