OBJECTIVE: To compare two group treatment programmes for obese outpatients. Both programmes included behaviour modification, nutrition counselling, very-low-calorie diet (VLCD) and a continuous ...

THE National Youth Service (NYS) is hailing its 2006 Behaviour Modification Programme as a major success, with the initiative having had a positive impact on the lives of the student participants.

The point of therapy and counselling is for the child to learn coping skills and adaptive behaviours. Options may include parent training, family therapy, organisational skills, training, individual ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. It is standard practice in mental-health centres and prisons countrywide, but two leading Canadian academics ...

Leon Festinger put forward the theory of cognitive dissonance. Cognition is the process of acquiring knowledge through our thoughts, experiences, and senses. Festinger states that an individual cannot ...