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Anxiety Management Training

A Behavior Therapy

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Richard M. Suinn

    1. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

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Part of the book series: The Plenum Behavior Therapy Series (PBTS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Nature and Presence of Anxiety and Stressors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Anxiety and Stress

      • Richard M. Suinn
      Pages 3-31

  3. Scientific Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Evidence for Anxiety Management Training

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      Pages 35-65

    3. Evidence for Anxiety Management Training

      • Richard M. Suinn
      Pages 67-109

  4. The Clinical Practice of Anxiety Management Training

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Overview of Anxiety Management Training

      • Richard M. Suinn
      Pages 113-137

    3. When to Treat an Anxious Client with Anxiety Management Training

      • Richard M. Suinn
      Pages 139-177

    4. Anxiety Management Training—The Basic Technique

      • Richard M. Suinn
      Pages 179-215

    5. Anxiety Management Training—The Basic Technique

      • Richard M. Suinn
      Pages 217-242

    6. Anxiety Management Training—The Basic Technique

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      Pages 243-259

    7. Management of Relaxation, Imagery, or Clients in a Group Setting

      • Richard M. Suinn
      Pages 261-282

  5. Applications of Anxiety Management Training

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 283-283
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    2. Behavioral Medicine

      • Richard M. Suinn
      Pages 285-298

    3. Human Performance Enhancement

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      Pages 299-311

    4. Intense Emotions

      • Richard M. Suinn
      Pages 313-324

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 325-376
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About this book

This book owes its existence to an ideal, a burning frustration, and a trusted believer. The ideal was the sense that governed my feelings about systematic desensitization during my early introduction to its benefits. It is hard to put into words the initial doubts that pervaded me during my first attempt with desensitization with a seriously phobic client, as I re­ ligiously worked my way through the procedure: "Will this client really become relaxed? And then what-will the visualization actually occur? And then what-will the fear really vanish, just like that?" And oh, the feeling of discovery, and validation, when indeed the process worked, and worked well. Desensitization was everything it was claimed to be: systematic, clean, theoretically grounded, empirically tested, applicable as a behavioral technology regardless of one's own theoretical bias. And there were testable outcomes; concrete evidence for change. So I became invested and aimed at doing more with desensitization. My students and I raised some theoretical questions in order to open the doors for revising the desensitization to improve on its applications. We tested the rapidity with which desensitization could be accomplished, shortening the time by shortening the anxiety hierarchy. Along with others, we studied the question of group delivery, and reducing the total number of sessions, as well as examining the use of audiotaped delivery of services.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

    Richard M. Suinn

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Anxiety Management Training

  • Book Subtitle: A Behavior Therapy

  • Authors: Richard M. Suinn

  • Series Title: The Plenum Behavior Therapy Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3567-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43545-4Published: 31 October 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-3569-4Published: 12 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-3567-0Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 376

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry

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