Anxiety Management Training—The Basic Technique

1990 ◽  
pp. 179-215
Author(s):  
Richard M. Suinn
Keyword(s):  
Management Training ◽  
Anxiety Management ◽  
Basic Technique ◽  
Anxiety Management Training

Anxiety Management Training for Anxiety States: Positive Compared with Negative Self-Statements

1982 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ramm ◽  
Isaac Marks ◽  
Richard Stern ◽  
Sahika Yuksel
Keyword(s):  
Management Training ◽  
Panic Attacks ◽  
Modest Improvement ◽  
Anxiety Management ◽  
Anxiety States ◽  
Treatment Conditions ◽  
Anxiety Management Training ◽  
Self Instruction

SummaryTwelve patients complaining of chronic free-floating anxiety, usually also with panic attacks, were assigned at random to treatment by six hour-long sessions of anxiety-management training, either with positive or with negative self-statements, given over six weeks. Patients in both treatment conditions improved, with a small trend favouring positive over negative self-instruction, especially at follow-up. It is unclear how much self-instruction, rather than therapeutic attention or mere passage of time, accounted for the bulk of the modest improvement obtained.

Compliance with Relaxation Training: the Effect of Providing Information

1985 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Bennett ◽  
Mark Millard
Keyword(s):  
State Anxiety ◽  
Relaxation Training ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Anxiety Management ◽  
Training Groups ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Anxiety Management Training ◽  
Group Programme

In order to test its effect on compliance with recommended practice of relaxation training, patients in anxiety management training groups were provided with additional information about the procedure and its rationale. After an introductory training session all subjects were provided with audiotaped relaxation instructions to use for three weeks until the second group meeting. Additional information was provided either as an audiotaped message at the end of the relaxation instructions (“Message”) or as a printed leaflet (“Leaflet”). In a 2 × 2 factorial experiment 32 subjects were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: (1) Message, (2) Leaflet, (3) Message and Leaflet, (4) Basic Programme alone. Neither manipulation had an effect on self-reported frequency of practice during the three weeks (which was high), but both increased subjects' knowledge of the treatment and also their satisfaction with it. Subjects receiving the message were significantly less likely to drop out of treatment during the remainder of the 16-weeks group programme. Compliance was predicted by subjects' perceptions of the severity of their condition but not by their knowledge, satisfaction or state anxiety.

COMPARISON OF EFFECTIVENESS OF LARGE SCALE STRESS WORKSHOPS WITH SMALL STRESS/ANXIETY MANAGEMENT TRAINING GROUPS

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
June S. L. Brown ◽  
Ray Cochrane ◽  
Carol Mack ◽  
Newman Leung ◽  
Teresa Hancox
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Anxiety Management ◽  
Client Group ◽  
Traditional Health ◽  
Drop Out Rate ◽  
Anxiety Management Training ◽  
Comparison Of Effectiveness ◽  
Stress Workshops

This study investigates whether large-scale, day-long stress management workshops open to the general public can work as well as small, weekly groups run for referred clients. It is suggested that the self-referral route may enable some people who might otherwise have been ‘‘filtered out’’ from the traditional health services to get help for their stress-related problems. Analysis showed that the large-scale format was just as effective with a more distressed subgroup as was the small weekly format for formally referred clients, which suggests that the effectiveness of this approach is not only related to a restricted client group. It would appear that the low drop-out rate, the effectiveness of the workshops and the severity of problem handled within this format indicates potential value in this type of approach.

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