Behavior Therapy in Psychiatric Practice

Behavior Therapy in Psychiatric Practice presents a list of problems dealt with in the field of psychiatry, psychology, and sociology. These issues are identified and effective therapies are suggested. Such deviant behaviors as drug addiction, irrational fears or phobias, obsessive compulsion, and sexual deviations are covered in the book. The book discusses the experience of a real patient as a case sample and states the mode of therapy that cured the patient's abnormality. A section of the book describes the process of non-verbal factors of assertive training. Assertive training is a form of explicit verbal message modification. A chapter of the text shows the correlational study of assertiveness and anxiety. The diagnosis and treatment of Depression is fully covered. A type of therapy which is called the Family Contracting Exercise is described and taught. The book will provide useful information to psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, students and researchers in the field of psychology.

Addiction, Amphetamine: Contingency Management: 16 Female Patients,16-44 Yrs. Old A Contingency Management Program on a Drug-Free Unit for Intravenous Amphetamine AddictsAgoraphobia: Behavior Analysis: 48 Yr. Old Female Identifying the Antecedents of an Agoraphobic Reaction: A TranscriptAnorexia Nervosa: Positive Reinforcement: 14 Yr. Old Female Food as the Reinforcer in the Outpatient Treatment of Anorexia NervosaAnorexia Nervosa: Behavior Analysis: Young Adult Female Identifying the Anxiety Antecedents of a Psychosomatic Reaction: A TranscriptAnorexia Nervosa: Contingency Management: 22 Yr. Old Female; 16 Yr. Old Female Rapid Treatment of Two Cases of Anorexia NervosaAnorexia Nervosa: Systematic Desensitization: 20 Yr. Old Female Systematic Desensitization of Anorexia Nervosa Seen as a Weight PhobiaAssertive Training: Teaching Non-Verbal Components of Teaching the Nonverbal Components of Assertive TrainingAssertiveness & Anxiety: Correlational Study: 86 Female/Male Voluntary College-Age Students Assertiveness and Anxiety: A Correlational Study Compulsion, Handwashing: Systematic Desensitization: 26 Yr. Old Female Treatment of a Severe Handwashing Compulsion by Systematic Desensitization: A Case ReportCrowds, Fear of: Systematic Desensitization: 51 Yr. Old Male The Disinhibition of a Memory During Systematic DesensitizationDepression: Behavior Analysis: 41 Yr. Old Female Transcript of Initial Interview In a Case of DepressionDepression: "Spontaneous" Therapy: 23 Yr. Old Female A Case Illustration of "Spontaneous" Therapy Preempting Planned TherapyElevators, Fear of: Reciprocal Inhibition By Feeding: 19 Yr. Old Male; 32 Yr. Old Male A Brief Treatment of Elevator Phobia A Critical Comment on the Use of Food Deprivation in the "Brief Treatment of Elevator Phobia." Reply to Rosen's Critical CommentExhibitionism: Aversion Therapy: 12 Yr. Old Male The Successful Application of Aversion Therapy to an Adolescent ExhibitionistFamily Therapy: Contingency Contracting The Family Contracting ExerciseFire-Arms, Fear of: Flooding & Reciprocal Inhibition by Motor Activity: 43 Yr. Old Male Treatment of Fire-Arm Phobia by Flooding in Vivo and Motor Activity: A Case StudyFlying, Fear of: Systematic Desensitization in Groups: 84 Female & 18 Male Volunteers: 20-69 Yrs. Old An Audiovisual Program for Group DesensitizationFlying, Fear of: Systematic Desensitization: 40 Females & 11 Males: 28-70 Yrs. Old An Automated Audiovisual Treatment of Phobias Administered by Non-ProfessionalsGastrointestinal Disorders, Diarrhea: Biofeedback Procedures: 5 Females: 15-62 Yrs. Old Intestinal Biofeedback In Functional Diarrhea: A Preliminary ReportHeart Attack, Fear Of: Systematic Desensitization: 44 Yr. Old Female Combined Use of Imaginal and Interoceptive Stimuli In Desensitizing Fear of Heart AttacksHomosexuality: Septal Stimulation: 24 Yr. Old Male Septal Stimulation for the Initiation of Heterosexual Behavior in a Homosexual MaleHypochondriacal Anxiety: Behavior Analysis Behavior Analysis of a Case of Hypochondriacal Anxiety: Transcript of First InterviewHypochondria, Variants of: Systematic Desensitization Exposure Time as the Main Hierarchy VariableObsession, Color-Naming: Thought-Stopping: 24 Yr. Old Male The Treatment Of An Obsession by thought-StoppingObsessive Rumination: Biofeedback Procedures: 2 Male & 3 Female Outpatients: Mean Age 32.10 Yrs Biofeedback of EEG Alpha in the Treatment of Obsessive Ruminations: An ExplorationPedophilia, Homosexual: Thought-Stopping & Assertive Training: 40 Yr. Old Male Case Conference: Assertive Training in a Case of Homosexual PedophiliaRejection, Fear of: Reciprocal Inhibition: 34 & 25 Yr. Old Females Induced Anger as a Reciprocal Inhibitor of FearSchizophrenia: Systematic Desensitization & Assertive Training: 15 Male & 9 Female Hospitalized Schizophrenics: 21-68 Yrs.