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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
US Department of Health and Human Services, 2005
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is one of many federal agencies working to understand autism. The NICHD supports and conducts research on what causes autism, how many people have autism, how best to treat…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Child Health, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Autism
Wilkins, Victoria; Urban, Greg; Zanotti, Mary; Chambliss, Catherine – 1998
In recent years, bulimia nervosa has plagued young women and become a major issue in mental health care. Strategies for training counseling students so as to acquaint them with clinical research on treatments for bulimia are presented in this report. It reviews empirically supported treatments (ESTs) concerning eating disorders in order to…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Bulimia, Cognitive Restructuring, Counseling Techniques
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Kirsch, Irving; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1995
Performed a meta-analysis on 18 studies in which a cognitive-behavioral therapy was compared with the same therapy supplemented by hypnosis. Results indicated that hypnosis substantially enhanced treatment outcome, even though there were few procedural differences between the hypnotic and nonhypnotic treatments. Effects seemed particularly…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Restructuring, Comparative Analysis
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Hoza, Betsy; Gerdes, Alyson C.; Mrug, Sylvie; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Bukowski, William M.; Gold, Joel A.; Arnold, L. Eugene; Abikoff, Howard B.; Conners, C. Keith; Elliott, Glen R.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Hechtman, Lily; Jensen, Peter S.; Kraemer, Helena C.; March, John S.; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Severe, Joanne B.; Swanson, James M.; Vitiello, Benedetto; Wells, Karen C.; Wigal, Timothy – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2005
Peer-assessed outcomes were examined at the end of treatment (14 months after study entry) for 285 children (226 boys, 59 girls) with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who were rated by their classmates (2,232 classmates total) using peer sociometric procedures. All children with ADHD were participants in the Multimodal Treatment…
Descriptors: Therapy, Behavior Modification, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders
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Ciarrochi, Joseph; Said, Terri; Deane, Frank P. – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2005
Decades of research have generally shown that being more rigid is associated with poorer mental health. We investigated whether all aspects of what has been termed "rigidity" are harmful. In particular, we hypothesized that the desire for simple structure (DSS) will not be associated with poor mental health, and in some cases might be associated…
Descriptors: Suicide, Life Satisfaction, Mental Health, Depression (Psychology)
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Foa, Edna B.; Rauch, Sheila A. M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004
The authors report on changes in cognitions related to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among 54 female survivors of sexual and nonsexual assault with chronic PTSD who completed either prolonged exposure alone or in combination with cognitive restructuring. Treatment included 9-12 weekly sessions, and assessment was conducted at pretreatment,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Behavior Modification, Females
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Robertson, J.; Emerson, E.; Pinkney, L.; Caesar, E.; Felce, D.; Meek, A.; Carr, D.; Lowe, K.; Knapp, M.; Hallam, A. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2005
To compare the nature and prevalence of use of procedures employed to treat and manage challenging behaviours across two approaches to providing community-based supported accommodation for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and severe challenging behaviour: noncongregate settings where the minority of residents have challenging behaviour,…
Descriptors: Incidence, Mental Retardation, Behavior Problems, Therapy
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Levy, Susan E.; Hyman, Susan L. – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2005
In no area of developmental pediatric practice is there more controversy regarding the choice of treatment than related to children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). Complementary and alternative medical therapies (CAM) are often elected because they are perceived as treating the cause of symptoms rather than the symptoms themselves. CAM…
Descriptors: Autism, Therapy, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
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Apsche, Jack A. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2005
In his work on the Theory of Modes, Beck (1996) suggested that there were flaws with his cognitive theory. He suggested that though there are shortcomings to his cognitive theory, there were not similar shortcomings to the practice of Cognitive Therapy. The author suggests that if there are shortcomings to cognitive theory the same shortcomings…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Epistemology, Therapy, Theories
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Apsche, Jack A.; Siv, Alexander M. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2005
This case study presents a case study of the effectiveness of Mode deactivation therapy (MDT) (Apsche, Bass, Jennings, Murphy, Hunter, and Siv, 2005) with an adolescent male, with reactive conduct disorder, PTSD and 8 lethal suicide attempts. The youngster was hospitalized four times for suicide attempts, three previous placements in residential…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Suicide, Cognitive Restructuring, Psychotherapy
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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
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Wald, Jaye; Taylor, Steven – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2006
Randomized controlled studies have shown that cognitive-behavioral therapies are effective for treating various forms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with most research focusing on combat or sexual-assault-related PTSD. A challenge currently facing researchers and practitioners is to develop specialized protocols for treating other forms…
Descriptors: Pain, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Head Injuries, Therapy
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Huppert, Jonathan D.; Barlow, David H.; Gorman, Jack M.; Shear, M. Katherine; Woods, Scott W. – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2006
This report is a post-hoc, exploratory examination of the relationships among patient motivation, therapist protocol adherence, and panic disorder outcome in patients treated with cognitive behavioral therapy within the context of a randomized clinical trial for the treatment of panic disorder (Barlow, Gorman, Shear, & Woods, 2000). Results…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Motivation, Cognitive Restructuring, Patients
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Spangler, Diane L.; Baldwin, Scott A.; Agras, W. Stewart – Behavior Therapy, 2004
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for bulimia nervosa (BN) has received considerable empirical support for its efficacy. However, few investigators have examined the mechanisms proposed to account for the reduction of BN symptoms during CBT. The current study examined the associations between therapist interventions, client mechanisms, and…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Therapy, Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification
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