Showing papers in "Behavior Therapy in 1982"

TL;DR: The results indicated that, relative to the changes in the comparison sample, the parenttraining sample showed a significantly greater reduction in the observed rates of deviant child behavior.

TL;DR: The results support the hypothesis that vomiting in bulimia nervosa is an escape-avoidance response reinforced by anxiety reduction, similar in function to compulsive hand washing and checking rituals in obsessive-compulsive neuroses.

TL;DR: The results suggest the utility of lifestyle exercise as a way to increase energy expenditure and long-term weight maintenance independent of diet.

TL;DR: The psychophysical evaluation techniques described in the Pain Perception Profile can provide behavioral clinicians with more reliable and objective information about the pain experience.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that subjects who were required to present a speech after their sleep period and told the topic of the speech required significantly longer to fall asleep and obtained less sleep than subjects in two control conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used imaginal flooding as the treatment and found that the effect of treating the memory of one traumatic event upon the anxiety-provoking nature of the remaining traumas.

TL;DR: In this article, a functional, ecobehavioral framework is suggested within which research on training can be organized, including an interactive model of behavioral service delivery that defines the function of and relationships among behavioral consultants, behavioral engineers, behavior managers, and clients.

TL;DR: The data do not support the traditional notions of headache, and group by condition interactions revealed no consistent pattern of results.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the timing of self-disclosures in depressed and non-depressed college students during conversations with confederates and found that depressed subjects were more likely than nondepressed subjects to emit self-declarations at times when such remarks were not directly solicited by confederate inquiries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of two parent training procedures in programming for generalization of parent and child behaviors to extra training settings were examined, and the results showed that the parent training resulted in generalized changes in parent behavior in both training and nontraining settings.

TL;DR: This article evaluated the long-term effectiveness of a parent-training program based on videotape modeling and found that most of the significant behavioral changes noted for mothers and children immediately posttreatment were either maintained or improved 1 year later.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relative effectiveness of different components of a behavioral marital therapy treatment program and found that the behavioral therapy conditions were more effective than the waiting-list condition in aiding distressed couples.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of spouse involvement on weight loss and maintenance was examined for 75 obese adults, and the results indicated that attending sessions with their spouses had significantly more weight loss than subjects who had attended without their spouses.

TL;DR: In this paper, a brief overview of the use of EMG biofeedback in the physical rehabilitation of patients with chronic low back pain is provided, which is based on the basic principles of kinesiology, biomechanics and anatomy.

TL;DR: The treatment group receiving rewards for weight loss and coming to the clinic five times per week was the only group to reduce significantly in percent overweight during the treatment program.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of anxiety management training in reducing generalized anxiety using a self-help format were examined, and the results were discussed in terms of the effectiveness of selfhelp methods in reducing anxiety and in comparison with the results of previous studies.

TL;DR: The authors compared the effectiveness of four training methods designed to improve parents' reinforcement skills and assessed the relationship between acquisition of skills and parent characteristics via an in-home observation of the parent's reinforcement skills with his or her child.

TL;DR: In this article, the relative reactivity of self-versus teacher-assessment of a child's on-taks behavior during self-monitoring was compared for a learning disabled boy exhibiting severe attentional problems.

TL;DR: In this paper, four mentally retarded adults in the mild to moderate range were treated in a multiple baseline design for behaviors associated with depression in individual therapy sessions at a local mental health clinic consisting of information, performance feedback, and token reinforcement of correct responses.

TL;DR: In this article, a direct parent training technique (bug-in-the-ear) was used to reduce abuserelated behaviors in a low-functioning child abusive mother who displayed very high rates of aversive behavior towards her three children.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the differential efficacy of self-control therapy alone and selfcontrol therapy plus antidepressant medication in treating unipolar depression and found that combined treatment resulted in significantly more rapid improvement as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory.

TL;DR: This paper examined the differential impact of male and female assertive, empathic-assertive, and nonassertive behavior on low and high assertive individuals, after viewing standardized videotapes of one of four models engaged in several refusal situations, subjects evaluated the model on multiple indices of interpersonal attraction.

TL;DR: The results of a large behavioral weight control program suggest that patients lose modest amounts of weight during treatment and maintain these losses for at least 1 year as discussed by the authors. But, only 4.7% of these patients had achieved their goal weight.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of a peer-modeling film on anxiety reduction and skill acquisition in children learning to self-inject insulin were investigated, and the results showed that the older girls viewing the film showed greater skill in selfinjection than their counterparts viewing the nutrition film.

TL;DR: Choice of program was found to be related to weight history, and active participation in either program led to significant weight losses compared to nonparticipation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a component analysis of a group training program for parents was carried out and it was found that the inclusion of the teaching of general behavioral principles did not improve the performance of parents and that it was necessary to include techniques that directly shaped the parent's behavior (modeling and role playing) in order for them to learn to be effective teachers of their children.

TL;DR: In terms of patients' views of the important factors in psychotherapy, characteristics of therapists and some common aspects of therapy appear to be emphasized over differences in techniques, and some of the recent emphases on convergence and integration of psychotherapy are discussed.

TL;DR: The hope of finding a way to integrate the various approaches to psychotherapy dates back some 50 years as mentioned in this paper, and some of the trends in this area, which recently appear to be gaining momentum, are highlighted in this article.