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D J de L Horne

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PubMed1996

Sociotropy, autonomy, and dysphoric emotional responses to specific classes of stress: a psychophysiological evaluation.

The aim of this study was to assess the ability of trait measures of sociotropy and autonomy to predict immediate emotional responses to imagery conditions depicting social rejection and achievement failure. Emotional responses were assessed by self-report techniques and by 2 putative psychophysiological measures of dysphoric mood: heart rate and facial muscle activity. Undergraduate volunteers (N = 100) were assessed for sociotropic and autonomous traits, general levels of depression, and sensory imagery ability, before performing a series of imagery trials depicting neutral and stressful (social rejection and achievement failure) scenes. Results provided support for the role of sociotropy as a vulnerability factor to dysphoric response to social rejection and to a lesser degree for achievement failure, but there was no support for autonomy as a vulnerability factor for either type of stressful script.

Achievement↗
PubMed1977

An evaluative study of Silver's Cerebral Function Test.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of Silver's Cerebral Function Test in predicting the management and placement of patients admitted to a psychogeriatric hospital. Overall, 205 consecutively admitted patients and 54 age-matched controls living in the community were examined, thereby greatly extending the normative data for the test. The results indicated that this brief, easily administered test could distinguish the patients from the controls. Also, the selected cut-off score of 28 significantly differentiated between patients able to benefit from rehabilitation and occupational therapy programs and those who required primarily maintenance care. The test-retest reliability of the test was good (r = 0.91).

Aged↗
PubMed1977

Behaviour therapy for psychosexual dysfunction.

Behaviour therapy is defined, and the therapeutic approach evolved by Masters and Johnson described. Their key concept of the desirability of treating couples and using co-therapists is evaluated in the light of research findings. It would seem that co-therapy is desirable, but a single therapist can do useful work with a single patient, a couple, or a group of couples using a behaviour therapy framework. Two illustrative cases are described.

Adult↗