Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-8ctnn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T02:42:49.287Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Treating School-Related Fears in Fifth-Grade Children Using Emotive Imagery: A Research Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2015

Neville King ,
Jeannette Stevenson ,
Margaret McSwiney  and
Rosemary Taylor
Neville King*
Affiliation:
Monash University
Jeannette Stevenson
Affiliation:
Monash University
Margaret McSwiney
Affiliation:
Monash University
Rosemary Taylor
Affiliation:
Monash University
*
Faculty of Education, School of Graduate Studies, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168
Get access

Abstract

A sample of 44 fifth-grade children exhibiting common fears were assigned to receive treatment using emotive imagery during a seven week period. One control group received attention-placebo treatment and another no treatment. There were no significant differences between the groups on post-intervention measures of fear and depression. Methodological limitations of the study are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , November 1991 , pp. 17 - 19
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 1991

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Jackson, H.J., & King, N.J. (1981). The emotive imagery treatment of a child’s trauma-induced phobia. Journal of Behaviour Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry, 12, 325–328.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
King, N.J., & Ollendick, T.H. (1989). Children’s anxiety and phobic disorders in school settings: Classification, assessment and intervention issues. Review of Educational Research, 59, 431–470.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kovacs, M. (1985). The Children’s Depression Inventory. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 21, 995–998.Google ScholarPubMed
Lazarus, A.A., & Abramovitz, A. (1962). The use of “emotive imagery” in the treatment of children’s phobias. Journal of Mental Science, 108 191–195.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ollendick, T.H. (1983). Reliability and validity of the revised Fear Survey Schedule for Children (FSSC-R). Behaviour Research & Therapy, 21, 685–692.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Piers, E.V., & Harris, D.B. (1969). The Piers-Harris Self Concepiscale. Nashville, Tenn.: Counsellor Records of Tests.Google Scholar
Reynolds, C.R. & Richmond, B.O. (1978). “What I think and feel”: A revised measure of children’s manifest anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 6, 271–280.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sarason, S.B., Davidson, K.S., Lighthall, F.F., Waite, R.R. & Ruebush, B.K. (1960). Anxiety in elementary school children. New York: Wiley.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wolpe, J. (1958). Psychotherapy by reciprocal inhibition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar