Showing papers in "Behavior Therapy in 1990"

TL;DR: In this paper, the efficacy of two versions of cognitive-behavioral intervention for depressed adolescents was evaluated. And the results showed that, compared to the wait-list subjects, treated subjects improved significantly on the depression measures.

TL;DR: Correlational analyses revealed that patients in the pain coping skills training group who reported increases in the perceived effectiveness of their coping strategies were more likely to have lower levels of physical disability post-treatment.

TL;DR: In this article, a case of relaxation induced anxiety in a patient with panic disorder was reported, and the use of an attentional training procedure which was effective in eliminating panic and facilitated tension reduction without producing anxiety.

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that depression and the amount of negative life stress made a significant contribution to the prediction of mother and father reports of child adjustment regardless of the time of the post-treatment assessment.

TL;DR: In this article, two individual treatment conditions for PTSD in Vietnam veterans were compared: direct therapeutic exposure (DTE) was compared to conventional one-on-one counseling (controls), and patients received an intensive group treatment milieu program in a VA inpatient treatment program specifically designed for PTSD.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the behavioral variations of pediatric oncology patients, their parents, and the medical staff across phases of medical procedures and found that the type, but not the level, of child coping varied by phase.

TL;DR: Correlational analyses revealed that patients' scores on the Pain Control and Rational Thinking (PCRT) factor of the Coping Strategies Questionnaire were related to outcome at six months follow-up.

TL;DR: This article employed a waiting-list control group design to evaluate the effectiveness of the habit reversal treatment procedure in eliminating the multiple motor and vocal tics in 10 subjects with Tourette Syndrome.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effect of homework assignment on therapy outcome by assigning 63 carefully diagnosed unipolar depressives to one of two otherwise identical 10-week cognitive therapy conditions, only one of which utilized weekly homework assignments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of social problem-solving therapy compared to supportive therapy for treating suicidal older adolescents and found that problem solving therapy was more effective than supportive therapy in reducing depression, hopelessness, and loneliness.

TL;DR: Mothers of noncompliant, clinic-referred preschool children were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 chair timeout (TO) enforcement procedures: Spank, Hold, Barrier, or Child Release, replicating prior studies.

TL;DR: Patients with chronic daily pain had more frequent negative thoughts during flare-ups than patients having intermittent pain secondary to sickle cell disease or rheumatoid arthritis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined patterns of interaction which may be uniquely associated with depressed-discordant couples and found that depressive behavior may suppress aggressive behavior early in the course of marital discord, and become less efficacious in the context of prolonged marital discord regardless of diagnostic status.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between therapist characteristics and outcome of in vivo exposure treatment for 33 agoraphobic clients was examined in a prospective study, and therapists who rated their therapists as more selfconfident and those who perceived their therapists to be more caring and involved were significantly more likely to improve on a behavioral avoidance test.

TL;DR: There was some indication, however, that group support may enhance long-term maintenance of weight loss, thus the cost advantage for the computer alone group declined over the follow-up period, and the computer without group support was significantly more cost-effective at immediate outcome than the other two groups.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of a behavioral approach for teaching four-year-old children personal safety skills and found that children who participated in the training program demonstrated greater knowledge about sexual abuse and higher levels of personal safety skill compared to controls, and these gains were maintained at one-month follow-up.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used cognitive behavior therapy with or without training in accurate body size perception to modify distorted and negative thoughts about physical appearance and exposure to avoided situations which provoked negative body image.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of massed versus spaced in vivo exposure sessions were compared in the treatment of 19 agoraphobic and 17 simple phobic outpatients, and the results indicated that massed treatment was less acceptable to some potential clients who refused treatment rather than accept random assignment.

TL;DR: An intensive group treatment approach for avoidant personality disorder (APD) was devised and evaluated by as mentioned in this paper, which included group systematic desensitization, behavioral rehearsal, and self-image work.

TL;DR: In this article, the psychometric properties of two measures of obsessive-compulsive symptoms are described, the Compulsive Activity Checklist (CAC) and the Maudsley Obsessional-Compulsive Inventory (MOCI).

TL;DR: In this article, between-groups treatment outcome analyses indicated that depressed, maritally discordant women became significantly less depressed following either cognitive therapy for depression or marital therapy, however, only marital therapy significantly increased marital satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of cultural practice is advocated as the key dependent variable to be addressed in work focused on the larger context for behavior problems, and the main theoretical concepts of cultural materialism are briefly described.

TL;DR: In this paper, two single-case experiments, each comprising a multiple-baseline design across three behaviors (delusions), are reported, each experiment incorporated a number of measures of delusional thinking and an intervention designed to challenge these delusions and to provide the clients concerned with alternative rules with which to organize their behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, the relative effectiveness of immediate and delayed reprimands contingent on off-task behavior in a classroom was examined, and the results showed that immediate reprimands resulted in much lower rates of interactive offtask behavior than did delayed reprimand.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the reliability and validity of a behavioral observation technique designed to assess pain behaviors in cancer patients and found that the level of interobserver agreement was quite acceptable.

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of a refined sucrose and caffeine free diet in the treatment of depression, and the results showed a significantly greater decline in depression on all depression measures and on several measures of general psychopathology at post test.

TL;DR: In this paper, the generalization of treatment effects of a cognitive-behavioral treatment program for marital distress was examined, and couples' communication was assessed in a training setting in the clinic and each of two generalization probe settings at home.

TL;DR: The data from a behavioral marital therapy outcome study were analyzed in order to better understand the phenomena involved when spouses improve in their communication skills but do not improve in marital satisfaction as discussed by the authors.