Clinical Psychology

his or her room, it is not likely to be nearly so effective as a token given immediately. That token will come to signify reward ...

than the administration of aversive agents or covert sensitization. For example,response costis a tech- nique in which positive ...

The Move Toward Cognitive-Behavioral Ther- apy. In reflecting upon these cognitive trends, apparent even almost four decades ago ...

further step toward unifying the behavioral and cognitive realms. In his proposed model, Bandura argues that expectations of per ...

learning is an active, not a passive, process. That is, a host of personal characteristics and cognitive processes influence beh ...

Modeling Bandura (1969, 1971) advocated the use ofmodel- ing, or observational learning, as a means of altering behavior pattern ...

or discussion in an attempt to get patients to see the irrationality of their beliefs. In addition to providing patients with a ...

SIT has been used for the treatment of several clinical problems, including rape and assault trauma, posttraumatic stress disord ...

Thus, a depressed 45-year-old man might be prone to be highly self-critical (and often feel guilty, even when it is not appropri ...

disorders (Fairburn et al., 1991), and personality dis- orders (Beck, Freeman, & Associates, 1990), to cite but a few exampl ...

meta-analysis presented in Chapter 11 (see Table 11-4). The separate effect sizes calculated for RET, non-RET cognitive therapie ...

way. Yet the nature of traditional psychotherapy renders it vulnerable to such problems of passivity. It is even possible that t ...

of another symptom if the present one is removed without attending to the underlying pathology. Attacking a patient’s anxieties ...

can be helped by therapy. Such persons may not be raised to the level of independent functioning, but with the advent of operant ...

experimental laboratory. Sometimes even the lan- guage of behavior therapy is straight out of the experimental research journals ...

CBT techniques to determine the most effective components of this approach that seem to be most strongly associated with symptom ...

improvement or adjustment in the psychotherapy situation even though this adjustment fails to gener- alize to nontherapy setting ...

orientation choice for scientist-practitioners and clinical scientists. There are, however, several lim- itations and challenges ...

situation that spurs his or her obsession (e.g., touching a doorknob) and is prevented from engaging in the compulsive behavior ...

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