ISBN: 0671815407
Godina izdanja: 1978
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Nathan H. Azrin, R. Gregory Nunn - Habit Control In A Day
Pocket Books, 1978
223 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Stuttering, Nail Biting, Hair Pulling, Muscular Tics, and Other Nervous Habits.

Such common, often intractable nervous disorders as stuttering, nail biting, hair pulling, and muscular tics can be quickly eliminated (if not quite "in a day"), psychologists Azrin and Nunn contend. Their method--tested on 300 persons of assorted ages--is to introduce a "competing reaction," i.e. a reaction incompatible with the habit. (For nail biting and hair pulling, the competing reaction is keeping the hands away from the face.) This response should be practiced at home in front of a mirror until it "can be maintained for several minutes without seeming unusual to someone who is watching." More stringently: "You also rehearse your new manner of dealing with habits in many different situations by acting out the procedures while imaginging yourself in those situations." Progress is to be measured by keeping a daily record of the frequency of the habit. The authors claim that, among their patients, "the average reduction of the habit was about 99.5% at the end of six months." But such near-unanimity would augur a miraculous breakthrough that, for one, Gerald Jonas` balanced appraisal of Stuttering (below) militates strongly against. Keep your hands away from your face and cross your fingers.

Contents
1. Nervous Habits Are a Serious Problem
2. How Many People Have These Nervous Habits?
3. Previous Methods of Treating Nervous Habits
4. How the New Method Was Developed and Tested
5. The Rationale for the New Method
6. Keeping Progress Records of the Habit
7. Inconvenience Review: A Self-Appraisal of Habit Annoyances
8. Identifying the Actions Associated with the Habit
9. Awareness Training: Becoming Aware of How and When Your Habit Occurs
10. Learning to Relax When Nervous
11. Identifying Habit-Prone Situations
12. The Competing Reaction for Habits
13. Learning the Competing Reaction for Nail Biting and Hair Pulling
14. Learning the Competing Reaction for Nervous Ties
15. Learning the Competing Reaction for Stuttering
16. Learning the Competing Reaction for Other Miscellaneous Habits
17. Rehearsing How to Control the Habit
18. Social Support by Your Friends
19. Displaying Your Improvement to Others
20. Advice to Parents
21. Case Histories of Nail Biting, Muscle Tics, and Stuttering
22. Brief Outline of the Method
AUTHORS NOTE
REFERENCES
INDEX

Here is the program of habit reduction and control that has been developed and tested by psychologists Nathan H. Azrin and R. Gregory Nunn.
Here are the results of published studies that have been widely reported in magazines, newspapers, and psychology journals throughout the country-results that have shown habit reductions of 90% one day after treatment, 95% by the end of the first week, and 99% by the end of the first month.
And here are the step-by-step techniques-described in detail and illustrated that men, women, and children have followed to `unlearn` the bad habits that trouble them and to reduce these effects of nervousness in their lives.
`Concrete advice and relaxation exercises for the nation`s 40 million nail-biters, 4 million stutterers, 8 million hair-pullers....`
-The Washington Post


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