Fear reduction and fear behavior: Problems in treating a construct.

摘要: Most fear reduction therapies are aimed in the general direction of broad constructs called fear or anxiety. However, the fact that responses which show so little unity are all held to assess these constructs prompts a very different strategy. It suggests that we should apply specific techniques to the different behavioral systems that we are trying to change--verbal, overt-motor, and somatic--and that therapy should be a self-conscious, multidimensional process.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)