Electrodermal Arousal of Chronically Ill Psychiatric Patients Undergoing Intensive Behavioral Treatment
- 1 July 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Psychosomatic Medicine
- Vol. 30 (4), 423-436
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006842-196807000-00006
Abstract
Severely regressed female psychiatric patients were tested repeatedly while undergoing an intensive behavioral treatment program. The study focuses on interrelations between some of the physiological and overt behavioral measures taken during the course of therapy. In the initial testing, severity of illness, which was evaluated from the patient''s behavior, was negatively related to basal skin conductance level, and to spontaneous and specific GSR [Galvanic skin response] activity. The longitudinal data collected over the year of therapy indicated that the patients became more responsive to the demands of their physical and social environment by the year''s end.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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