Changing negative attributions to mental patients by means of demythologizing seminars

✍ Scribed by Dr. James K. Morrison

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 256 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(197704)33:2<549::aid-jclp2270330246>3.0.co;2-p

✦ Synopsis

Effects of Antidepressive Program on Verbal Behavior

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I n conclusion, the Antidepressive Program appears to modify and decrease the number of dysphoric mood adjectives that depressed patients ascribe to themselves. Dysphoric decrease remains over, at least, a short period of time, although not as pronounced as that immediately after response to treatment. Present results indicate that assertive, aggressive responses are in the patient's repertoire, but apparently are suppressed by depressive behaviors until reinforcement contingencies are arranged in such a way as to permit their expression. When these competing responses become overt, patients are judged clinically free of depression and, in fact, describe themselves as no longer depressed. For a clearer understanding of these effects, follow-up study over a longer time span and analyses of posttreatment environmental events in terms of enhancing or subtracting from nondepressed behavior is indicated.

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