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..The purpose of the present study was to develop a treatment for marijuana dependence specifically designed to enhance self-efficacy...

..The CSS, and the brief versions of the CSS, may prove useful in future treatment trials to evaluate effects of treatment on coping skills acquisition and utilization in substance dependent individuals...

..The purpose of the present study was to explore mechanisms of behavior change from a marijuana treatment trial in which CBT and ContM were evaluated separately and in combination...

..The results suggest that CB treatment for TMD pain can help patients alter their coping behaviors, and that these changes translate into improved outcomes...

..The results suggest that mechanisms of coping skills treatment may need to be reconceptualized...

..Results were seen as supporting a situational model of intervention for chronic TMD pain...

..The purpose of this pilot study was to test a treatment in which coping skills were trained in a highly individualized way, allowing us to determine if such training would result in an effective treatment...

..Specific coping-skills training was not essential for increasing the use of coping skills. The results raise questions about the efficacy of specific treatment elements of CBT in treatment of alcohol dependence...

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..1) To search for predictors of alcohol craving in treated alcoholics; (2) to evaluate the relationship between craving and drinking immediately after treatment...

..These results were replicated in the 2nd study (N = 150). The results are seen as supportive of a multidimensional view of dental anxiety...

..However, significant methodological problems were brought to light that may have compromised the results. These problems are presented and potential solutions are proposed...

..These findings indicate that drinkers' social networks can be changed by a treatment that is specifically designed to do so, and that these changes contribute to improved drinking outcomes...

..The present study assessed whether outcomes improve further when clients are assigned to group treatments prospectively based on a matching strategy derived from the previous findings...

..The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of 16 months of cigarette abstinence on areas of BC measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA)...

..Thereafter, drinking levels remained fairly stable throughout the follow-up year. The results are most likely reflective of a regression to the mean effect, and indicate that use of alcohol and marijuana are independent of one another...

..The roles of contingency management and coping skills training in the treatment of marijuana dependence are discussed...

..This study examined whether coping skills acquisition mediated the effects of CBT on decreasing gambling in pathological gamblers...

..The utilization of IVR systems should be explored to improve efficacy and attainment of generalizability to heterogeneous adolescent populations and lifestyles including for other psychiatric disorders...

..18; 95% CI = 0.99-1.42; P= 0.07). It is concluded that rehabilitation therapy self-efficacy is a potentially important psychological factor in helping hip fracture patients recover locomotion functioning...

..The present article seeks to identify drinking, psychosocial and/or biological variables that could be candidates for use as universal indicators of change following alcoholism treatment...

..The findings indicate that a network support treatment can effect long-term adaptive changes in drinkers' social networks and that these changes contribute to improved drinking outcomes in the long term...

..A secondary aim was to determine whether or not there were any carry-over effects of combination nicotine replacement on drinking outcomes...

..Implications of the findings for interventions to enhance adoption and maintenance of exercise programs by older women are discussed...

..These behaviors themselves were accounted for partly by a cognitive factor. The results support the advantages of employing multidimensional models and provide some direction for intervention to reduce caries incidence...

..Although intensive smoking treatment was associated with higher rates of short-term tobacco abstinence, other, perhaps more intensive, smoking interventions are needed to produce lasting smoking cessation in alcohol dependent smokers...

..Results support a cross-substance cue reactivity model of multiple substance use and a limited-strength model, but not a cross-substance coping model...

..A treatment program that helps the patient change his or her social network from one that reinforces drinking behavior to one that reinforces sobriety can create the conditions necessary for long-term treatment success. ..

..If successful, the proposed intervention would provide a powerful tool for ameliorating a major public health problem. ..

..If successful, the proposed intervention would provide a powerful tool for ameliorating a major public health problem. ..

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..These results would have implications for our delivery of treatment, and for the validity of coping skills training for alcohol addiction. ..

..We will also explore the possibility, introduced in Project MATCH, that a change in network support will be maximally beneficial to those whose social networks were initially most supportive of drinking to start with. ..

..A treatment program that helps the patient change his or her social network from one that reinforces drinking behavior to one that reinforces sobriety can create the conditions necessary for long-term treatment success. ..