Teaching stress management techniques to a schizophrenic patient.
This paper describes a stress management training program used with a 26-year-old schizophrenic man attending an outpatient day care program. In a seven-session program the patient was taught to use various techniques in muscle relaxation and biofeedback to decrease anxiety and to cope with stress. The patient's improvement on 7 of the 20 items of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory demonstrated the effectiveness of even a short-term stress management program.
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Department of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 53201.
Nikolic
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D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012064:Relaxation Therapy; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy*; D013663:Teaching