ABSTRACT. Sixty‐seven subjects with mild or moderate intellectual disability were assessed on a variety of measures of emotion. All of the measures were self‐report measures and all of the data is based on reports by die subjects' themselves. The battery included the Zung Self‐Rating Anxiety Scale, the Zung Depression Inventory, the General Health Questionnaire and the Eysenck‐Widi‐ers Personality Test. The results reveal an impressive amount of convergent validity in the subjects' emotional systems.
Behavioural relaxation training is a recently developed method to help individuals cope with their anxiety. The present study describes its use with adults who are mentally handicapped. Three case studies are presented to illustrate its successful implementation.
This paper describes and compares two relaxation training procedures with moderately and severely mentally handicapped people. Abbreviated Progressive Relaxation is a widely used procedure while Behavioural Relaxation Training is a relatively recent development which the authors felt might be more suitable for mentally handicapped people since it does not require a conceptual awareness of internal states of anxiety. While both relaxation procedures produced improvements, Behavioural Relaxation Training was significantly better than Abbreviated Progressive Relaxation. In addition to this the results during treatment showed Abbreviated Progressive Relaxation to produce very variable effects from session to session. In contrast the effects of Behavioural Relaxation Training were quick and consistent.
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