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Is a B.A.T. Therapeutic?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

L. A. Rowland  and
A. G. M. Canavan
L. A. Rowland
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London
A. G. M. Canavan
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford
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Recent years have seen a growing concern in the psychometric properties of behavioural assessment procedures. The present study addresses itself to the question of the possible reactivity of the behavioural assessment of fear, a situation predicted both by the experimental extinction and incubation models.

In a single case study it was found that a 50% reduction in self-reported fear was associated with the behavioural assessment, though there was no evidence of a reduction of fear associated with “verbal therapy”. It is suggested that: (i) behavioural assessments of fear are reactive; (ii) that they produce a reduction in fear; and (iii) that this is consistent with an extinction model.

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Research Article
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 139 - 146
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1983

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