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I Beiman

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PubMed1981

Progressive and self-induced relaxation training: their relative effects on subjective and autonomic arousal to fearful stimuli.

Compared progressive relaxation training (PRT), self-induced relaxation training (SRT), and a rest quietly (RQ) control condition on measures of tonic physiological arousal and phasic physiological and subjective reactions to fearful stimuli. The Mutilation Anxiety Questionnaire was used to identify 48 male and female participants for the two training assessment sessions. Evaluation of tonic reductions in sympathetic arousal indicated: In session one, PRT and SRT were equivalent; in session two, PRT was superior to SRT. Evaluation of subjective response to fearful stimuli favored PRT/SRT over RQ for low, moderately stressful stimuli; PRT was superior to SRT for the most stressful stimuli. An analysis of reported practice between sessions indicated a negative relationship between practice of relaxation skills and response to stressful tonic physiological arousal and attenuating subjective response to stressful stimuli. The interaction between the cognitive and physiological systems and its implication for therapy are discussed.

Adult↗
PubMed1981

Didactic persuasion techniques in cognitive restructuring.

Previous discussions of verbal persuasion techniques utilized in cognitive restructuring have been relatively general and imprecise. This lack of specification has made comparisons between treatment procedures and research regarding the efficacy of verbal persuasion procedures difficult. Drawing from diverse discussions of persuasive techniques, those verbal persuasion procedures considered applicable within the context of a therapeutic relationship are individually specified and discussed. The attempt to systematize verbal techniques is intended to provide a tentative nomenclature by which the verbal aspect of various cognitive therapies may be put within a firmly established framework.

Behavior↗
PubMed1980

The effects of behavior therapy, self-relaxation, and transcendental meditation on cardiovascular stress response.

Compared Behavior Therapy (BT), self-relaxation (SR), transcendental meditation (TM), and a waiting-list control group (WL) on measures of cardiovascular and subjective stress response. Male and female respondents (N = 60) to an ad for therapy were evaluated in assessment sessions before and after treatment. The results indicate that BT and SR were more effective than either TM or WL in reducing cardiovascular stress response. These data were interpreted as resulting from therapeutic suggestion and positively reinforced client progress.

Anxiety↗
PubMed1980

Relationship between physiological and self-reported stressful response and psychosomatic disorders.

A revised version of the Atonomic Perception Questionnaire (Mandler, Mandler, & Uviller, 1958) was administered to 359 psychology students and the highest and lowest scoring (12.5%) males and females (N = 88) of this group were selected to participate in two experiments. In Exp. 1, skin conductance, muscle tension, respiratory rate, and heart rate were recorded prior to and during presentation of neutral and stressful visual stimuli. In Exp. 2, the same indices were recorded and the same procedure was used. Participants were instructed to rate physiological reactivity to the stimuli. Finally, a medical history questionnaire was mailed to each participant 1 wk. after completing the experiments. The data indicate that this version of the Autonomic Perception Questionnaire was predictive only of responsivity of skin conductance to stressful stimuli.

Arousal↗
PubMed1978

Setting generality of blood pressure reductions and the psychological treatment of reactive hypertension.

The setting generality of treatment effects was examined for a client with 3 years' history of essential hypertension. Self-control progressive relaxation training led to durable normotensive blood pressures (BP) in the natural environment and psychology clinic, although medical setting BP remained elevated. Further assessment indicated that this latter problem was a function of conditioned anxiety to medical setting stimuli. Systematic desensitization led to reductions in medical setting BP to normotensive levels, and laboratory psychophysiological assessments confirmed the elimination of the anxiety response. The present case study raises the issue of to what extent such reactive hypertension is a problem for other individuals similarly diagnosed and demonstrates the importance of the assessment of generality of treatment effects for essential hypertension.

Adult↗