Induced anxiety.

Sipprelle, Carl N.

doi:10.1037/h0087933

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“…Induced affect (IA, originally called induced anxiety ; Sipprelle, 1967) provides for coping skills rehearsal under high levels of affective arousal, with the goal of increasingthe client’s self-regulatory abilities and enhancing coping self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997). IA is an operant conditioning method developedby Sipprelle (1967) to elicit affective arousal and facilitate awareness of thoughts, memories, and behaviors that are functionally related to the client’s presenting problem (Smith & Ascough, 1984, in press). While IA resembles traditional imaginal and in vivo exposure in that both activate fear networks, IA differs from traditional exposure in that exposure is based on an extinction or inhibitory learning model.…”

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Enhancing Stress Management Coping Skills Using Induced Affect and Collaborative Daily Assessment

Chen

Gilmore

Wilson

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Cognitive and Behavioral Practice

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The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of induced affect (IA) and collaborative (therapeutic) assessment (CA) as components of Cognitive-Affective Stress Management Training (CASMT). IA is a technique for rehearsing cognitive and physical relaxationcoping skills under conditions of high affective arousal, which has been shown to result in high levels of coping self-efficacy. CA provides diary-based feedback to clients about the processes underlying theirstress experiences and helps identify affect-arousing experiences to be targeted by IA. We include descriptions of the IA technique and anonline stress and coping daily diary, as well as sample transcripts illustrating how CA is integrated into CASMT and how IA evokes high affective arousal and skills rehearsal. To illustrate idiographic assessment, we also describe threetreatment cases involving female clients between the ages of 20 and 35 with anxiety symptoms who participated in six weeks of CASMT and reported their daily stress and coping experiences (before, during, and following the intervention)for a total of ten weeks. The resulting time series data, analyzed using Simulation Modeling Analysis (SMA), revealed that all clients reported improved negative affect regulation over the course of treatment, yet they exhibited idiographic patterns of change on other outcome and coping skills variables. These results illustrate how IA and CA may be used to enhance emotional self-regulation and how time-series analyses can identify idiographic aspects of treatment response that would not be evident in group data.

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Section: Cognitive-affective Stress Management Trainingmentioning

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Enhancing Stress Management Coping Skills Using Induced Affect and Collaborative Daily Assessment

Chen

Gilmore

Wilson

et al. 2017

Cognitive and Behavioral Practice

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“…Sometimes the flooding occurs in fantasy, rather than in real life, in which case it is termed 'implosion' (Stampfl, 1967). Related methods are those of paradoxical intention (Frankl, 1960) and induced anxiety (Sipprelle, 1967). Results of many trials are reviewed by Marks (1972).…”

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Empirical Psychotherapeutic Methods

Marks¹

1974

Psychother Psychosom

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Psychotherapy comprises all forms of psychological treatment. Four aims can be distinguished in various psychotherapeutic procedures – to provide a rewarding experience, to increase self-knowledge, to allow confession, or to effect a lasting change in behaviour. During psychotherapy, the therapist uses his behaviour to change that of his patient. Prediction of therapeutic events requires more knowledge of the periodic table of therapeutic elements than we now possess. Low-order empirical hypotheses are currently possible but unitary theories are too far removed from the data to be of predictive value. ‘Empirical’ implies reliance on observation and experiment, and empirical psychotherapeutic methods start with observation of patients’ behaviour outside and inside therapy. From such observation, ideas are formed about operative variables, and these ideas are tested in larger controlled situations. These in turn, suggest further ideas for pilot study. The dialectic between pilot and larger scale study revolves around clinical observation of patient behaviour in response to events outside and inside treatment. Therapist behaviour flexibly follows inferences about variables maintaining patient behaviour in the short- and the long-term. What the therapist actually does may have little relevance to the theory he espouses. Similar psychotherapeutic procedures can be described in many theoretical languages, and a rose by any other name smells just as sweet. When an existentialist logotherapist shows an obsessive-compulsive patient how to approach contaminated material and requests him to follow suit, he is doing the same as self-styled behaviourists who model with flooding in vivo and response prevention. More important than the global theory is the procedure actually employed. Of course, active therapeutic ingredients of most treatment techniques still have to be dissected. Effective psychotherapeutic methods are valuable tools of experimental psychopathology which advance understanding and efficacy simultaneously. Potent treatment changes certain behaviour and so enables the therapist to detect which pathologies are interlocking and which are independent. This is rather like an ablation experiment in neurophysiology. No one aspect of behaviour can be regarded as primary, and confidence can only be placed in psychotherapeutic results which are consistent across different facets of behaviour. ‘Behaviour’ here denotes any or all aspects of a sequence from its initiation in internal imagery and feelings, to its final execution as overt behaviour, together with its physiological concomitants. An empirical psychotherapeutic approach implies multifactorial mechanisms for aetiology and treatment. It allows active ingredients of treatment to be isolated, and delineation of relationships amongst different psychopathologies. In time, higher-order theories will become possible with greater predictive power than at present.

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“…Physiological arousal is held to be useful primarily as a means t o facilitate subjective emotional arousal (Sipprelle, 1967). Certainly the work of Schachter (1966) suggests that physiological arousal might facilitate the experience of negative affect.…”

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Direct manipulation of physiological arousal in induced anxiety therapy - biofeedback approach

Sappington

1977

J. Clin. Psychol.

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This study investigated the role of physiological arousal in the affect induction phase of Induced Anxiety therapy by using biofeedback to facilitate arousal. Twenty-one college students who were suffering from free-floating anxiety were assigned randomly to one of three groups: (1) a no-treatment control group simply completed the measures before and after therapy; (2) a conventional Induced Anxiety group went through five standard Induced Anxiety sessions; and (3) biofeedback Induced Anxiety group went through a similar procedure except that biofeedback was used in the affect induction phase to facilitate heart rate increase. It was found that the biofeedback procedure did result in a greater heart rate increase during the affect induction phase arousal than did the conventional procedure (.01 level of significance), but did not facilitate subjective emotional arousal. Biofeedback Induced Anxiety resulted in a greater reduction of trait anxiety as measured by the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List than did the no-treatment group or the conventonal Induced Anxiety group. The conventional Induced Anxiety group did not differ significantly from the no-treatment control group.

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Induced anxiety.

Cited by 38 publications

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Enhancing Stress Management Coping Skills Using Induced Affect and Collaborative Daily Assessment

Enhancing Stress Management Coping Skills Using Induced Affect and Collaborative Daily Assessment

Empirical Psychotherapeutic Methods

Direct manipulation of physiological arousal in induced anxiety therapy - biofeedback approach

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