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Download full textPuretz, Susan L. – 1975
A variety of psychotherapeutic methodologies has proliferated as a consequence of rapid growth in the need for mental health services. The effectiveness of many of these methods is questionable. Although each psychotherapeutic technique advances claims for its continued use based on clinical effectiveness, few offer adequate scientific evidence to…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Conditioning
Peer reviewedTosi, Donald J. – Counseling Psychologist, 1977
In a response to Albert Ellis' feature article, the author corroborates Ellis' viewpoint and discusses other areas in psychotherapy that need further research. (HMV)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Editorials, Opinions, Psychotherapy
Peer reviewedHastings, Richard P.; Symes, Matthew D. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2002
Eighty-five British mothers of children with autism who were acting as therapists for their child's program completed a questionnaire. Results indicated that, although program variables were unrelated to maternal therapeutic self-efficacy, support received from the program, the severity of the child's autism, and maternal stress were significant…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Modification, Foreign Countries, Mothers
Peer reviewedTarnowski, Kenneth J.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Retardation, 1989
The study of staff acceptability of behavioral interventions for self injurious behavior (SIB) in persons with severe/profound mental retardation indicated that: accelerative interventions were more acceptable than reductive treatments; acceptability of treatments varied as a function of SIB severity; and client status and type of work setting did…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Ethics
Peer reviewedMudford, Oliver C.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1995
This study, involving a man having profound mental retardation and demonstrating severe self-injurious behavior, found that a Therapeutic Shock Device (TSD) worn by the client and remotely operated was more effective than a previously used handheld shock stick, and it did not cause tissue damage. The client did not appear to find the TSD aversive.…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Case Studies, Electrical Stimuli
Direct linkMcNeil, Cheryl B.; Herschell, Amy D.; Gurwitch, Robin H.; Clemens-Mowrer, Laurie – Education and Treatment of Children, 2005
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is an empirically supported, parent-training program designed to teach parents specific techniques to manage the behavior of children between the ages of two and seven exhibiting extreme disruptive behavior. Over 30 published studies (see Herschell, Calzada, Eyberg, & McNeil, 2002b for a review) have lent…
Descriptors: Therapy, Interaction, Behavior Disorders, Foster Care
Kaufman, Noah K.; Rohde, Paul; Seeley, John R.; Clarke, Gregory N.; Stice, Eric – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
Several possible mediators of a group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for depressed adolescents were examined. Six measures specific to CBT (e.g., negative cognitions, engagement in pleasurable activities) and 2 nonspecific measures (therapeutic alliance, group cohesion) were examined in 93 adolescents with comorbid major depressive disorder…
Descriptors: Therapy, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Behavior Modification
Schoenwald, Sonja K.; Sheidow, Ashli J.; Letourneau, Elizabeth J. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2004
This study validated a measure of expert clinical consultation and examined the association between consultation, therapist adherence, and youth outcomes in community-based settings. Consultant adherence to the multisystemic therapy (MST) consultation protocol was assessed through therapist reports, and therapist adherence to MST principles was…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Quality Control, Behavior Problems, Therapy
Goodwin, Jean M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2005
This brief review traces the evolution of clinical understanding about borderline syndromes during the last three decades of the 20th century. The focus shifted from descriptive phenomenology in the 1970s to documenting linkages with childhood trauma in the 1980s. In the 1990s, effective and teachable techniques for emotional containment in these…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Therapy, Behavior Modification
Wilcox, Daniel T. – Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2004
The development of comprehensive treatment services for intellectually disabled sex offenders has been slow in comparison with mainstream sex offender treatment services, which have now achieved Home Office accreditation within the National Probation Service. The author discusses some of the reasons for this failure to keep pace, focusing on the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Sexual Abuse, Mental Retardation, Therapy
Kazdin, Alan E.; Marciano, Paul L.; Whitley, Moira K. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
The authors examined the therapeutic alliance in evidence-based treatment for children (N = 185, 47 girls, 138 boys; ages 3-14 years) referred clinically for oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior. Different alliances (child-therapist, parent-therapist) were assessed from each participant's perspective at 2 points over the course of…
Descriptors: Therapy, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Children
Messenger, Michelle; Onslow, Mark; Packman, Ann; Menzies, Ross – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2004
Much research has suggested that those who stutter are likely to be anxious. However, to date, little research on this topic has addressed the role of expectancies of harm in anxiety, which is a central construct of anxiety in modern clinical psychology. There are good reasons to believe that the anxiety of those who stutter is related to…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Behavior Modification, Effect Size, Clinical Psychology
Reilly-Harrington, Noreen A.; Knauz, Robert O. – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2005
This article describes the application of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to the treatment of rapid cycling bipolar disorder. Between 10% and 24% of bipolar patients experience a rapid cycling course, with 4 or more mood episodes occurring per year. Characterized by nonresponse to standard mood-stabilizing medications, rapid cyclers are…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Patients, Therapy, Psychological Patterns
Jensen, Peter S.; Arnold, L. Eugene; Swanson, James M.; Vitiello, Benedetto; Abikoff, Howard B.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Hechtman, Lily; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Pelham, William E.; Wells, Karen C.; Conners, C. Keith; Elliott, Glen R.; Epstein, Jeffery N.; Hoza, Betsy; March, John S.; Molina, Brooke S. G.; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Severe, Joanne B.; Wigal, Timothy; Gibbons, Robert D.; Hur, Kwan – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: In the intent-to-treat analysis of the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD (MTA), the effects of medication management (MedMgt), behavior therapy (Beh), their combination (Comb), and usual community care (CC) differed at 14 and 24 months due to superiority of treatments that used the MTA medication algorithm (Comb+MedMgt)…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Behavior Modification, Psychopathology, Therapy
Sanchez, Lisa M.; Chronis, Andrea M.; Hunter, Scott J. – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2006
Medical adherence to complex diabetes regimens can be challenging, particularly for adolescents, and therefore represents the most common reason for referral to behavioral psychologists among this population. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), when present in children and adolescents with diabetes, presents unique barriers to…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Diabetes, Hyperactivity, Behavior Modification
