Progress in Behaviour Therapy, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975

This book contains a selection of the proceedings of the Second Meeting of the European Association for Behaviour Therapy and Modification, and of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Behavioural Engineering Association. The conference, held at Wexford, Ireland, was attended by 320 delegates from most European countries and North America. In the foreword to the proceedings of the previous European Conference Brengelmann and Tunner commented upon the extension of the basis of behaviour therapy. They pointed out that behaviour therapy had developed from the position in the early days, when treatments were derived by almost literal translation of learning principles to the clinic, to the more modern position where therapies were developed from considerations of the results from all experimental disciplines devoted to the study of both human and animal behaviour. Even a superficial consideration of the breadth of the topics repre­ sented in this volume will indicate that this trend has continued.

I. Behaviour Modification with Children.- Mannerisms, Mutilation and Management.- Acquisition of the Two-Word “Pivot-Open” Structure in Subnormal Children: A Case Study.- Comparison Among Therapists Attempting Language Training and Generalization of Punishment Effects in the Behaviour Modification of a Schizophrenic Child.- Treatment of Anorexia in Early Infancy — Some Behavioural Approaches.- Problems in the Conditioning Treatment of Enuresis.- II. Behavioural Approaches to Neurotic Disorders.- Are Phobics Jll?: Subject Sampling and the Validity of Treatment Analogues of Phobic Anxiety States.- Response Prevention and Modelling in the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis: A Study of 24 Patients.- Three Flooding Procedures in the Treatment of Agoraphobics.- The Efficiency of a Standardized Assertive Training Program (ATP).- Behaviour Therapy and Bereavement.- Models of Depression.- III. Behaviour Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction.- The Masters and Johnson Approach to Marital Sexual Problems in a National Health Service Setting.- The Relevance of the Masters and Johnson Methodology to the Treatment of Sexual Disorders in an Outpatient.- Treatment of Frigidity by Group Desensitization.- Aversion Therapy with Sexual Deviants.- A Controlled Investigation of the Efficacy of Conjoint Marital Therapy: Interpretative Versus Directive.- Marital Interaction in Sexual Dysfunction.- IV. Approaches to Specific Behaviour Problems.- Systematic Desensitization and Self-Control Training in the Treatment of Speech Anxiety.- Therapy for Smoking.- Self-Control Techniques and Obesity.- The Effects of Monetary Rewards and Feedback on the Work Behaviour of Psychiatric Patients.- V. Some Physiological Aspects of Behaviour Modification.- The Relationship between Physiological and Psychophysiological Measures of Sexual Response.- Changes in Cardiac Rate Effected by Operant Reinforcement Contingencies.- Physiological Correlates of the Extinction of an Avoidance Response Under Three Conditions of Activation.- Clinical Observations Regarding the Use of Electromyographic Feedback with Chronically Anxious Patients.- VI. The Implementation of Behaviour Modification in the Environment.- Interaction Patterns in Clinical Behaviour Therapy.- The Application of the Principles of Behaviour Modification to Social Work Agencies in the South West Lancashire Area.- Behaviour Modification in a Therapeutic Community.- VII. Analysis and Evaluation of Behaviour Modification.- A Mathematical Model for the Analysis of Therapies.- Mathematical Models for Evaluation of Therapies.- An Approach to the Experimental Investigation of Some Parameters of Systematic Desensitization of the Individual Patient.- Discriminant Function Analysis of the SOM.- VIII. Methodological Problems in Behaviour Modification.- Behaviour is Behaviour is Behaviour.- Therapist Variables in the Desensitization of Clinically Phobic Patients.- An Evaluation of the Factors that Influence Prognosis in Behaviour Therapy.- Prognosis in Behavioural Psychotherapy.