Behavior therapy is by no means simplistic and mechanistic. It is possible to expand the horizons of behavior therapy to include such concepts as cognition and awareness without resorting to mentalistic or Freudian speculation. A new technique, the Idealized Self-Image (ISI) has been devised for the enhancement of self-esteem and learned…

The document is concerned with women's failure to plan some reasonable occupational program, the lack of which places increasing pressure on the counselor and the female counselee. The report discusses some research on femininity: (1) how women adjust to the social norm; (2) how women describe the ideal woman; and (3) how women see themselves…

Psychotherapeutic systems derived from psychoanalytic-learning and from client-centered models both predict that subjects' openness to environmental feedback will increase in the course of therapy. It was hypothesized that counseled teachers would become more open to feedback from pupils than control teachers, specifically that counseled teachers…

This study evaluated the effects of covert positive reinforcement (CPR) on a nine-year old, third-grade student who was causing a classroom disturbance. There was an immediate improvement in three target behaviors following the implementation of CPR by the school psychologist. (Author)

Proposes reasons for the popular use of stimulant medication in the treatment of hyperactivity, as well as assertions that drug therapy alone is inadequate and insufficient. Behavior modification, although limited in applications with hyperactive children, has demonstrated a favorable effect on disruptive behaviors, self-concept, peer acceptance,…

This paper reviews the literature regarding social withdrawal in childhood. Consideration is offered of the significance of the problem as an entity and as it is related to other patterns of maladaptive behavior. Behavior therapy classroom procedures which have proven effective in remediating social withdrawal are critically reviewed. (Author)

Describes a treatment seminar in which cognitive-behavioral treatment methodologies were applied to various postdivorce adjustment problems. Major components of the treatment seminar discussed in this paper include: (a) seminar format, (b) group process, (c) cognitive restructuring, (d) modeling and behavior rehearsal, and (e) use of homework…

Compared a broad-spectrum treatment against a control limited to one week of aversive conditioning. Results indicated a dramatic treatment effect, with 76 percent of experimental subjects (as compared to 35 percent of controls) remaining abstinent at a six-month follow-up. (Author)

Expectancy instructions were introduced six times during the four-week treatment, and effectiveness of these instructions was demonstrated with independent nonreactive measures of subjects' expectancies. An analysis of self-report, behavioral, and unobtrusive measures of snake anxiety revealed significant main effects for instructions, with…

A six-step treatment program for women who are inorgasmic during intercourse is described. Teaches women to associate orgasms brought on by manual clitoral stimulation with arousing thoughts about intercourse and vaginal containment of a dildo. Learning is generalized to vaginal containment of the partner's penis and thrusting movements. (Author)

Applied the meta-analysis technique to school-based studies of psychotherapy. The results indicate that psychotherapy in the schools is moderately effective. Evidence was also found of the greater efficacy of group and behavioral theory interventions that target observed behaviors and problem-solving abilities. (Author/KS)

Evaluated effectiveness of posttreatment programs to enhance weight loss maintenance. Obese clients (N=85) participated in either behavior therapy, behavior therapy and peer-support, or behavior therapy and therapist-contact programs. At 7-month follow-up, therapist-contact program showed significantly greater weight loss maintenance than did…

Compared the relative efficacy of stimulus control and imagery training with a wait-list control condition for treating 21 sleep-maintenance insomniacs. Stimulus control was more effective than either imagery training or no treatment in reducing both the frequency and duration of night-time awakenings, though training showed substantial reductions…

Presents a brief model which integrates an individual, cognitive-behavioral approach with a strategic approach to therapy, at both pragmatic and theoretical levels. Justifies the selective use of behavioral frames in strategic therapy in this Strategic-Behavioral model, and offers guidelines for their selective application. Presents and discusses…

A mediated punishment procedure that involved recreating a behavioral sequence by guiding the subject through the behavior in the situation in which it occurred was used to suppress several severe behavior problems in two severely handicapped children (ages 4 and 17). (Author/DB)