Enhanced Risk Aversion, But Not Loss Aversion, in Unmedicated Pathological Anxiety. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Anxiety disorders are associated with disruptions in both emotional processing and decision making. As a result, anxious individuals often make decisions that favor harm avoidance.
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Group Implosive Therapy in the Treatment of Test Anxiety [PDF]
The purposes of the study were to: 1. Determine the level of test anxiety present, as measured by the Test Anxiety Questionnaire (TAQ), prior to treatment. 2. Develop an implosive therapy procedure to reduce test anxiety. 3.
Dawley, Harold H., 1940-
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An Investigation of Semantic Desensitization as a Therapy in the Treatment of Snake Phobia [PDF]
The initial study of the present research was conducted to determine the effect of low versus high imagery stimulus words on the outcome of semantic desensitization as conducted by Hekmat and Vanian (1971). The overall lack of significant findings led to
Brown, Linda Rose
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Trauma Therapy and The Need for Cross Cultural Competence [PDF]
This project addresses the relevance of cross cultural competence for work in trauma therapy. I begin with a review of the literature on approaches to trauma therapy, identifying similarities and differences in key approaches, and comparing outcomes ...
Sommer, Marijke
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Psychological therapy for people with tinnitus: a scoping review of treatment components [PDF]
Background: Tinnitus is associated with depression and anxiety disor- ders, severely and adversely affecting the quality of life and functional health status for some people.
Hall, Deborah A. +3 more
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Crisis and the Poverty of Nations: Two Market Products Which Value Explains Better [PDF]
This article appeared as ‘Crisis and the Poverty of Nations: Two Market Products Which Value Explains Better’, Symposium on Robert Brenner and the World Crisis, Historical Materialism No.5, Winter 1999, pp 29-77. London: LSE.
Freeman, Alan
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The phonological development of typically developing first language Zulu-speaking children aged 2;6 - 6;5 years : a descriptive cross-sectional study [PDF]
Background: Zulu, one of the eleven official languages in South Africa, is the most spoken language in the country. However, research on children's phonological development in Zulu is minimal.
Jeggo, Zenia M
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Neurolinguistic Programming Treatment of Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [PDF]
The goal of the study was to determine the effect of the neurolinguistic programming procedure of visual-kinesthetic dissociation on symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder in a sample of Vietnam combat veterans.
Rogers, Susan
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Catharsis in psychotherapy [PDF]
The historical context of catharsis in psychotherapy is discussed, with particular reference to drama and ritual. The 'cathartic technique' of Freud and Breuer is then presented as part of the continuing development of approaches that advocate feeling ...
Hawkins, Peter John
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High Inflation and the Nominal Anchors of an Open Economy [PDF]
A high inflation process is usually due to a real imbalance and cannot be cured without a correction of real furamenta1s. Yet it can be characterized as a quasi-stable nominal process which gets divorced from the real system in what Patinkin could call a
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