Tactile Stimulus Fading in Treating Vaginismus
| Autor: | Geary S. Alford |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
| Předmět: |
050103 clinical psychology
medicine.medical_specialty 05 social sciences 050301 education Stimulus fading Standard methods Stimulus (physiology) Audiology medicine.disease Tactile stimuli Developmental psychology Clinical Psychology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Dilator Vaginismus Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Fading Psychology 0503 education |
| Zdroj: | Behavior Modification. 3:273-282 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4167 0145-4455 |
| Popis: | Severe vaginismus in a 22-year-old married female was successfully treated by systematically fading in tactile stimuli which successively approximated intra-vaginal penile stimulation. Prior trials with a gynecological dilator and a course of standard imaginal and in vivo desensitization had been unsuccessful. In the present treatment, new stimulus steps were interspersed with previously conditional stimulus steps and were introduced during performance of the desired terminal behavior (i.e., during sexual intercourse-like sensory-motor behavior of the patient). Fading is briefly compared to standard methods of introducing hierarchy items. |
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