Showing papers in "Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry in 1974"

TL;DR: Program data indicated that behavioral family counseling was the most effective alcoholism treatment method of the four procedures studied, and controlled drinking appeared to be an appropriate and practical treatment alternative to the traditional treatment program requirement of complete abstinence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of variable credibility of treatment procedures on avoidance behavior was assessed in three studies, where snake-fearful Ss were pretested and then presented with descriptions of, and rationales for, various therapy and placebo conditions.

TL;DR: Results indicated that the patient's headache levels and medication requirements were low during bio- feedback but increased when bio-feedback was terminated, and anti-tension exercises introduced during a clinical follow-up were associated with a sustained decrease in headaches.

TL;DR: Analysis of patient characteristics suggested that yoga meditation was beneficial for patients with a short history of illness and that flooding was effective in those with a long history.

TL;DR: In this article, a weight reduction program emphasizing self-control was presented to 20 volunteers under three different conditions: one group met weekly with E and received mild social reinforcement for progress; the other group had contact only by mail.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the use of a self-behavior modification program to successfully increase exercise behavior, and describe how to use self-behaviour modification to increase exercise behaviors.

TL;DR: In this article, a 10-year-old child carrying the diagnostic label of childhood autism was trained to speak at a normal voice volume and acquired a labeling vocabulary via an imitation learning paradigm which utilized a peer model.

TL;DR: In this paper, an 11-year-old male, diagnosed as having Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome, was treated by self-monitoring therapy, and a five-step procedure of successively refined control was employed.

TL;DR: Although smoking rates increased during follow-up, subjects were still smoking significantly fewer cigarettes than baseline at the end of 6 months.

TL;DR: In this article, a 2 × 2 design, multiplicity of models and variation of fear stimuli (imagining the model perform with one vs two different snakes) were combined to control for fear-related imagery in the absence of a model.

TL;DR: An 11-yr-old American Indian child who had never spoken a word in a reservation classroom during the entire 5 yr of her schooling was treated by behavioral therapy which employed stimulus fading procedures as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: An 11-year-old boy with a severe phobia for loud noises was treated in two sessions of flooding treatment following the failure of in vivo desensitization as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Treatment of a young renal patient with a phobia for hemodialysis was quickly and successfully resolved by the combined use of systematic desensitization, fading of stimulus control, and social reinforcement.

TL;DR: In this paper, group relaxation or group desensitization treatments via automated tape recorded directions for a 4-week period were used to improve sleep onset times of nonsmniac Ss.

TL;DR: In this paper, an operant program was used to treat a hospitalized schizophrenic patient with frequent visual hallucinations and severe obsessive compulsive behaviors using reinforcement and punishment paradigms in an attempt to eliminate the unusual overt behaviors which defined hallucinatory periods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of a parent-centered behavioral training program on the noncompliance of a deaf child was examined, which was designed to alter general parent-child interactions, involved initially teaching the mother reinforcement skills for desirable behavior and subsequently a time out procedure for deviant behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, a profoundly retarded, head-banging child demonstrated similar problems with generalization when stationary shock equipment was used but remote-control apparatus was able to overcome generalization problems and reduce head banging to zero.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of informational feedback concerning level of penile responding on subsequent sexual arousal was examined in a case of homo-and heterosexual impotence, using a single subject experimental design.

TL;DR: In this paper, three female college students with longstanding histories of aversive reactions to injections were treated by a multifaceted program consisting of prolonged presentations of hierarchical stimuli, in vivo work, modeling, and "homework".

TL;DR: In this paper, two treatment groups, a covert positive reinforcement (CPR) group as described by Cautela and a reversed-CPR group were compared with a no-treatment control group.

TL;DR: In this article, the successful treatment of a hypodermic needle phobia in 10 sessions, using in vivo systematic desensitization, was reported, and it is suggested that this treatment is well suited to the alleviation of pain when the experience of pain is compounded by fear and anxiety.

TL;DR: Results indicate that some obsessives can learn EEG control; special augmented instructions seem no better than standard, minimal instructions in aiding Ss to produce alpha; subjective states during alpha are reported as relaxed, daydreaming and not thinking; and virtually no ruminations occur during alpha regardless of the amount of alpha produced.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the effectiveness of keeping a written record of each cigarette before versus after its consumption and found that self-monitoring procedure prior to rather than subsequent to cigarette consumption completely eliminated the smoking behavior of a 49-yr-old female.

TL;DR: In this paper, natural and foster parents' groups were taught a number of principles of behavior modification and how to apply them to their retarded children, including reinforcement, extinction, time outs, modelling, cueing, and rehearsal procedures.

TL;DR: Results of the 6-week follow-up indicate that Group I members acquired the skills necessary to maintain weight loss and/or continue gradual reduction, and the applicability of the current program to the increasing numbers of obese as well as the possibility of paraprofessionals leading such programs are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a technique employed at the Children's Asthma Research Institute and Hospital (CARIH) in order to modify this behavioral pattern (time-out (T.O.) from positive reinforcement) is described.

TL;DR: In this article, an in vivo desensitization program was designed to reinstate normal verbal communication in an 11-yr-old girl who was selectively mute for approximately 6 yr. The procedure discussed below was conducted within the context of the patient's everyday environment and utilized the emotional effects of positive reinforcement as the postulated reciprocal inhibitor of fear.

TL;DR: In this article, a patient with a long-standing vomiting phobia was treated by flooding under a hypnotic trance, and a follow-up 1 yr after treatment showed that she had remained free of her phobia.

TL;DR: In this article, a phased sequence of relaxation training, EMG feedback, and feedback of alpha and theta EEG frequencies was used to develop a low arousal, anti-stress response.

TL;DR: The encouraging results of this self-management strategy, when contrasted with years of unsuccessful medical treatment, suggest the need for more controlled research on applications of behavior therapy to respiratory disorders.