Richard M O’Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 7077701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard M O’Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard M |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lycoming College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2153-9761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Institutional Review Board Problem
In response to abuse in government medical experiments, the Belmont Report (1974) was issued to protect human subjects and facilitate government sponsored research. Over the last 30 years, the federal government has codified this report into a program to overprotect subjects and impede all research. At Hofstra University, the AAUP recognized this threat to academic freedom. Based on the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), a grievance was filed…
Competence Imagery
An emetophobic child is nonresponsive to conventional systematic desensitization and has her anxiety responses counterconditioned by using Competence Imagery instead of physical relaxation responses while progressing through her fear hierarchy
The rise and fall of the manpower services commission
Policies for the inner cities
Training for the future
Treatment of Anxiety about College Tests with Negative Practice and Systematic Desensitization
72 test-anxious subjects were assigned to three treatment groups and two control groups for 6 weekly sessions. Treatment conditions were negative practice with and without homework instructions and systematic desensitization. The two control conditions involved a psychoanalytically oriented attention-placebo group and a waiting-list, no-treatment group. There were no differences in grade point average between groups following treatment. Only the …
Contingency Factors in Negative Practice of Smoking
100 cigarette smokers were randomly assigned to 1 of 5 treatment groups balancing the level of smokers within groups. To uncover the importance of chaining in overresponding or satiation treatments of cigarette smoking, 2 of these groups were required to double or triple their baserate in 2 or 3 cigarette chains while a third group simply doubled their daily consumption. For comparison, a fourth group received covert sensitization treatment of th…
Negative Practice and Desensitization of Anxiety about Examinations
30 test-anxious subjects were assigned to two treatment groups for 6 weekly sessions. One group experienced standard group-desensitization of test anxiety while the other group was instructed in negative practice of anxiety responses and satiation of anxiety-producing stimuli. There were no significant differences between the two treatment groups and a control group ( N = 15) in grades for the semester preceding treatment. Both treatment groups h…
Negative Practice and Desensitization of Anxiety about Examinations
30 test-anxious subjects were assigned to two treatment groups for 6 weekly sessions. One group experienced standard group-desensitization of test anxiety while the other group was instructed in negative practice of anxiety responses and satiation of anxiety-producing stimuli. There were no significant differences between the two treatment groups and a control group ( N = 15) in grades for the semester preceding treatment. Both treatment groups h…
Contingency Factors in Negative Practice of Smoking
100 cigarette smokers were randomly assigned to 1 of 5 treatment groups balancing the level of smokers within groups. To uncover the importance of chaining in overresponding or satiation treatments of cigarette smoking, 2 of these groups were required to double or triple their baserate in 2 or 3 cigarette chains while a third group simply doubled their daily consumption. For comparison, a fourth group received covert sensitization treatment of th…
Treatment of Anxiety about College Tests with Negative Practice and Systematic Desensitization
72 test-anxious subjects were assigned to three treatment groups and two control groups for 6 weekly sessions. Treatment conditions were negative practice with and without homework instructions and systematic desensitization. The two control conditions involved a psychoanalytically oriented attention-placebo group and a waiting-list, no-treatment group. There were no differences in grade point average between groups following treatment. Only the …
Training for the future
The rise and fall of the manpower services commission
Policies for the inner cities
Competence Imagery
An emetophobic child is nonresponsive to conventional systematic desensitization and has her anxiety responses counterconditioned by using Competence Imagery instead of physical relaxation responses while progressing through her fear hierarchy
The Institutional Review Board Problem
In response to abuse in government medical experiments, the Belmont Report (1974) was issued to protect human subjects and facilitate government sponsored research. Over the last 30 years, the federal government has codified this report into a program to overprotect subjects and impede all research. At Hofstra University, the AAUP recognized this threat to academic freedom. Based on the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), a grievance was filed…
Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anxiety (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Systematic desensitization (3 works)