• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The Treatment of Agoraphobia : A Comparison of Self-Instructional Training, Rational Emotive Therapy, and Exposure in Vivo : A Comparison of Self-Instructional Training, Rational Emotive Therapy, and Exposure in Vivo
  • Contributor: Emmelkamp, Paul M. G.; Brilman, Els; Kuiper, Hermieke; Mersch, Peter-Paul
  • imprint: SAGE Publications, 1986
  • Published in: Behavior Modification
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/01454455860101003
  • ISSN: 0145-4455; 1552-4167
  • Keywords: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ; Clinical Psychology ; Developmental and Educational Psychology
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  • Description: <jats:p> Exposure in vivo, rational emotive therapy, and self-instructional training were compared with 43 agoraphobics as subjects. After six treatment sessions exposure in vivo was clearly superior to the cognitive treatment on measures of phobic anxiety and avoidance. Additional exposure in vivo sessions for all conditions led to continuing improvement. Results at the posttest suggest that the cognitive strategies did not enhance the effects of exposure in vivo. </jats:p>