abstract：:The severe aggression and noncompliance of a profoundly retarded blind male were subjected to extensive behavioral assessment in order to identify controlling variables. The assessment, conducted across settings and therapists, suggested that these inappropriate behaviors functioned to avoid or terminate nonpreferred ...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Slifer KJ,Ivancic MT,Parrish JM,Page TJ,Burgio LD

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case study is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of regular educational visits in reducing the over-utilization of emergency health care services. Frequent emergency room visits and help-seeking telephone calls were reduced substantially. The financial cost to the health system overall was reduced by 50%. ...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Small KG,Seime RJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of clinical trainees to learn to distinguish between classically conditioned and cognitively based neurotic fears was examined in two small-scale studies. The first study showed that they readily learned to make the distinction on the basis of transcripts of key excerpts of actual patient sessions, and tha...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Wolpe J,Lande SD,McNally RJ,Schotte D

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested whether performance on a progressive ratio schedule of reinforcement with increasing magnitudes of monetary reward could be used as a behavioral measure of response to reinforcement during depression. Performance on the task was recorded before, during and after treatment of depression in six melancholic pat...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Hughes JR,Pleasants CN,Pickens RW

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear Survey Schedule data are presented for a sample of 141 psychiatric patients who met the DSM-III criteria for an anxiety disorder. Diagnostic and gender differences in expressed fears are presented and the results are discussed in light of previous research. ...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Thyer BA,Tomlin P,Curtis GC,Cameron OG,Nesse R

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of behavior therapy in Sri Lanka is presented. Its beginnings in the decade of the 70s in the two medical schools in Colombo and Peradeniya and its current status are reviewed, and future prospects are discussed. The need for developing and expanding behavior therapy practice in the country, and possib...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： de Silva P,Samarasinghe D

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical review is presented of studies utilizing EMG biofeedback for relaxation of upper extremity musculature. Examined are experimental investigations with normal subjects and those with psychological problems, and clinical applications of the methodology for treatment of involuntary movements and anxiety. Articl...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Ince LP,Leon MS,Christidis D

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the use of a multifaceted exposure program that lasted 16 weeks, a 27-year-old male was treated for debilitating and irrational fears of having a heart attack. The subject reported reductions in daily anxiety ratings and Valium intake at midtreatment and further reductions at the conclusion of treatment. These chan...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Tearnan BH,Goetsch V,Adams HE

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of relaxation and biofeedback treatment for adults who suffer from headaches is well documented. By contrast, only several case study reports have been published describing these procedures applied to childhood headaches. This report describes the treatment of 15 children, aged 10-17 years, treated i...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Waranch HR,Keenan DM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses problems with field-based replications of behavioral interventions. Major issues identified include operational specificity, mislabelling of procedures, relative contributions of components in multi-faceted treatment packages, and impediments to systematic replication. The paper concludes with a c...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Derer KR

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses the current and potential use of paradoxical interventions in behavioral medicine. Paradoxical interventions are considered to be of two types: intra-individual and interpersonal. Treatment indications differ for the two types of interventions. Intraindividual paradoxical interventions have been...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Jacob RG,Moore DJ

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of social skills training comprising didactic instructions, coaching, modeling, feedback and reinforcement were examined in a child diagnosed Conduct Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder in whom social isolation and poor peer interactions were prominent features. Treatment was implemented in the specifi...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Van Hasselt VB,Griest DL,Kazdin AE,Esveldt-Dawson K,Unis AS

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current paper describes a unique case of a very young (4-year-old) dental phobic girl whose mother was also dental avoidant. Treatment of the girl involved a combination of graded exposure and utilizing the mother as a coping model. The results suggest that treatment was highly successful at least to a 6-month fol...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Klesges RC,Malott JM,Ugland M

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tripartite assessment of nine patients experiencing either pretreatment nausea and vomiting, pretreatment nausea or posttreatment nausea and vomiting only was conducted. Three consistent patterns of response emerged: (1) patients with pretreatment nausea and vomiting reported elevated levels of nausea and anxiety an...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Ahles TA,Cohen RE,Little D,Balducci L,Dubbert PM,Keane TM

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This project examined the effects of a multicomponent behavioral treatment program on assaultive behavior in a deaf, visually-impaired adolescent boy. Two types of assaultiveness were monitored: aggression towards adults and destruction of the physical environment. Intervention consisted of a token economy system, a r...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Luiselli JK

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested Albert Ellis' Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) theory which predicts that cognitive beliefs, not the stimulus situation, generate human emotions. According to RET, emotions created by rational beliefs are adaptive, while irrational beliefs result in an unadaptive anxiety level. Results demonstrated tha...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Master S,Gershman L

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mean sleep onset latency was reduced from 124 to 29 min in 15 patients suffering from insomnia secondary to cancer; 15 subjects receiving routine care had means of 116 and 104 min in comparison. Muscle relaxation training was administered in individual sessions on three consecutive days. With 26 subjects available for...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Cannici J,Malcolm R,Peek LA

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed at (a) eliminating self-stimulation and increasing task-related responding in severely handicapped children, and (b) assessing maintenance and carry-over of treatment effects following the use of sensory reinforcement. The results showed that applying sensory or edible-liquid reinforcement,...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Lancioni GE,Smeets PM,Ceccarani PS,Goossens AJ

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates the effectiveness of a brief correction procedure in decelerating a high rate anti-social behaviour (spitting) in a profoundly retarded girl. A simple correction procedure seemed as effective as a more elaborate procedure incorporating positive practice elements, and gains were sustained with s...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Clements JC,Ditchburn C,Grumm D

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four mothers received toddler management training to teach basic behavior modification technology for use with their oppositional pre-school children. Clinic sessions included baseline, differential reinforcement I, reversal, differential reinforcement II, and follow-up. When training was completed, all mothers were p...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Reisinger JJ

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of a positive reinforcement contingency procedure was evaluated in the treatment of a 6-year old boy with reluctant speech. The intervention was conducted in the kindergarten classroom and the teacher served as therapist. Using an ABABB' single case experimental design, positive reinforcement was found to...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Morin C,Ladouceur R,Cloutier R

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A client with a shoplifting of 4 years' duration was treated by convert sensitization. To control for improvement attributable to demand characteristics alone, thought-stopping was utilized prior to the treatment period. Results indicated that the application of thought-stopping produced an increase in all dimensions ...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Gauthier J,Pellerin D

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a pilot study utilizing self-control techniques for the purpose of modifying the cue-reactive eating habits of obese patients, three subjects maintained a continuous weight loss throughout the first year of treatment. Techniques included goal setting, self-monitoring, brief delay and self-confrontation prior to eat...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Rosen LW

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes how fears develop on the basis of one or other of two distinct processes--direct autonomic conditioning or the establishment of new cognitive associations to already existing fears. The dichotomy relates both to the appropriate fears of everyday life and to neurotic fears. In the case of the latte...

journal_title：Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry

authors： Wolpe J

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00