Clinical Psychology

Emphasis on Feelings and Emotions. The reli- ance on subjective experience and feelings binds the clinician to a source of data ...

who is having adjustment problems and may also suffer from mental retardation? No one condones diagnoses that are nothing more t ...

that is so, then diagnosis does indeed become super- fluous. But if this is the case, then the charge of many humanistic existen ...

patient. Such recognition should enhance the role of diagnosis in the future. Lack of Research. As we mentioned previously, rela ...

assessment, and therapeutic“techniques”are gener- ally eschewed. Humanistic-existential approaches are similar to client-centere ...

callous, uncaring, and meaningless world and (b) to develop a sense of responsibility for his or her life. moral preceptsIn Gest ...

14 Psychotherapy: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives FOCUS QUESTIONS What features best characterize a behavioral ...

Stress Inoculation Training BOX14-5:Focus on Clinical Applications: Common“Irrational”Ideas Beck’s Cognitive Therapy BOX14-6:Foc ...

laboratory rat. This study was, in effect, a demon- stration of how a“neurosis”can develop in a child. In the tradition of Pavlo ...

serviceable character (Goldfried & Davison, 1994; Meichenbaum, 1977; Thorpe & Olson, 1997). Traditional Techniques of Be ...

broad spectrum behavior therapy. As specific techniques are described in the following pages, the reader should realize that eac ...

Relaxation. Behavior therapists frequently use the progressive relaxation methods of Jacobson (1938). The patient is first taugh ...

training. In some instances, hypnosis may be used to induce relaxation. More commonly, the patient may be asked to imagine relax ...

The recurrent themes in the patient’s difficulties and anxieties are isolated and then ordered in terms of their power to induce ...

relaxation and 100 maximum tension. Tell me approximately where you’d place yourself on that scale....(Therapist is advised to l ...

clinical conditions. As might be expected, research suggeststhatitismosteffectivewhenusedtotreat anxiety disorders, particularly ...

incorporated breathing retraining instead of intero- ceptive exposure. Although both forms of treatment were effective, results ...

To provide another example of an exposure- based empirically supported treatment, Box 14-3 presents an overview of the treatment ...

of reference. Different theorists may use similar tech- niques for vastly different reasons. The Technique. According to Goldfri ...

(Wolpe & Lazarus, 1966). Take the spectator at a basketball game who cannot see because the person in front constantly jumps ...