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A Skills Development and Apprehension Reduction Program for Communication Apprehensive/Reticent Students: An Alternative to Basic Course Instruction.

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Newhouse, Thomas L.; Spooner, Elizabeth Wing – 1982

A program was designed to reduce communication apprehension by using systematic desensitization, rhetoritherapy, and selected instructional strategies. Rhetoritherapy refers to the development of appropriate communication behaviors through a goal-setting procedure in which students learn to establish reasonable goals, ascertain behavior indicative…

Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Communication Apprehension, Communication Problems