Behavioral treatment of children's fears: A review.

Attachment and Loss

1969 • 17,518 citations

Principles of behavior modification

1969 • 4,667 citations

Education, health, and behaviour

1970 • 3,291 citations

The Child's Conception of the World

1971 • 2,594 citations

Conditioned emotional reactions.

1920 • 1,887 citations

Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models.

1961 • 1,856 citations

The Child's Conception of Physical Causality

1932 • 1,198 citations

The conditioning theory of fearacquisition: A critical examination

1977 • 1,162 citations

The development of a scale to measure fear

1965 • 780 citations

A stimulus-response analysis of anxiety and its role as a reinforcing agent.

1939 • 686 citations

Fear and courage

1978 • 583 citations

Fears and Phobias

1969 • 572 citations

A psychological approach to abnormal behavior

1969 • 570 citations

I. Synchrony and desynchrony in fear and avoidance

1974 • 496 citations

Method and theory in the study of avoidance.

1969 • 491 citations

Reduction of anxiety in children facing hospitalization and surgery by use of filmed modeling.

1975 • 440 citations

The Elimination of Children's Fears.

1924 • 416 citations

A Laboratory Study of Fear: The Case Of Peter

1924 • 399 citations

Factors determining vicarious extinction of avoidance behavior through symbolic modeling.

1968 • 382 citations

A fear survey schedule for children (FSS-FC): A factor analytic comparison with manifest anxiety (CMAS)

1968 • 352 citations

Vicarious extinction of avoidance behavior.

1967 • 315 citations

Behavior Therapy: Techniques and Empirical Findings

1974 • 314 citations

Different Ages of Onset in Varieties of Phobia

1966 • 309 citations

MODIFICATION OF SOCIAL WITHDRAWAL THROUGH SYMBOLIC MODELING¹

1969 • 279 citations

Fears and worries in a representative sample of children.

1959 • 266 citations

Examination of model characteristics in reducing avoidance behavior.

1971 • 264 citations

Identification and observational learning from films.

1957 • 261 citations

The use of “Emotive Imagery” in the Treatment of Children's Phobias

1962 • 252 citations

A developmental study of the behavior problems of normal children between twenty-one months and fourteen years.

1954 • 239 citations

AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES IN CHILDREN'S FEARS

1976 • 235 citations

Relative efficacy of modeling, shaping, and the combined procedures for modification of social withdrawal.

1972 • 229 citations

The passing of the two-stage theory of fear and avoidance: Fresh possibilities

1976 • 213 citations

School phobia: Rapid treatment of fifty cases.

1965 • 197 citations

The group desensitization of children's snake phobias using vicarious and contact desensitization procedures

1968 • 179 citations

Imitation and retention of film-mediated aggressive peer and adult models.

1965 • 174 citations

Children's Fears

2007 • 172 citations

Reduction of children's fear of the dark by competence-related and situational threat-related verbal cues.

1975 • 170 citations

Comparison of reciprocal inhibition, psychotherapy, and waiting list control for phobic children.

1972 • 142 citations

Childhood behaviour and mental health

1971 • 140 citations

Discriminative classical conditioning in dogs paralyzed by curare can later control discriminative avoidance responses in the normal state.

1962 • 134 citations

Efficacy of participant modeling as a function of response induction aids.

1974 • 129 citations

What Children Fear

1965 • 123 citations

The Use of Symbolic Modeling to Promote Social Skills in Preschool Children with Low Levels of Social Responsiveness

1974 • 117 citations

Reinforced practice and reduction of different kinds of fears in adults and children

1973 • 115 citations

Factor structure of childhood fears.

1972 • 105 citations

Louisville Behavior Check List for Males, 6—12 Years of Age

1967 • 105 citations

The Behavioral management of anxiety, depression, and pain

1976 • 99 citations

Modifying social withdrawal in preschoolers: The effects of filmed modeling and teacher praise

1973 • 98 citations

Relative contributions of modeling, informational influences, and physical contact in extinction of phobic behavior.

1970 • 96 citations

Aggression as a function of magnitude of victim's pain cues, level of prior anger arousal, and aggressor-victim similarity.

1971 • 91 citations

Pilot study on the effectiveness of systematic desensitization with neurologically impaired children with phobic disorders.

1970 • 90 citations

Fear-reduction research and clinical phobias.

1978 • 90 citations

Processes governing disinhibitory effects through symbolic modeling.

1973 • 90 citations

Behavioral management of school phobia

1970 • 88 citations

A comparison of behavior therapy techniques in the reduction of fearful avoidance behavior.

1974 • 83 citations

Vicarious and direct counterconditioning of test anxiety through individual and group desensitization

1969 • 81 citations

Active and passive participation in the contact desensitization of snake fear in children

1973 • 72 citations

Clinical applications of observational learning imitation and modeling

1972 • 72 citations

Desensitization techniques in the treatment of school phobia.

1966 • 71 citations

Methods of Overcoming Children's Fears

1935 • 69 citations

The Elimination of Children's Phobias by Deconditioning

1964 • 68 citations

Importance of model similarity on extinction of avoidance behavior in children.

1975 • 68 citations

Fears of Children

1969 • 64 citations

The Fears of Adolescents

1974 • 62 citations

Fear Survey Schedule: A Normative Study

1965 • 61 citations

Play desensitization of fear of darkness in preschool children

1976 • 57 citations

The Influence of Symbolic Modeling on the Social Behavior of Preschool Children with Low Levels of Social Responsiveness

1976 • 55 citations

The Use of Motion Pictures in the Psychological Preparation of Children for Induction of Anesthesia

1974 • 54 citations

Phobic children one and two years posttreatment.

1973 • 54 citations

Treatment of school phobia with implosive therapy.

1970 • 51 citations

A correlational comparison of the Wolpe-Lang fear survey schedule and Taylor manifest anxiety scale

1965 • 51 citations

AN INFANT'S PHOBIA TREATED WITH RECIPROCAL INHIBITION THERAPY

1962 • 50 citations

Vicarious Extinction of Avoidance Behavior through Films: An Initial Test

1968 • 49 citations

Phobias of childhood in a prescientific era.

1974 • 47 citations

Modeling and the fearful child patient.

1970 • 47 citations

Revised Anxiety Scales for the Louisville Behavior Check List

1971 • 45 citations

THE INCIDENCE OF EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS IN SCHOOL CHILDREN

1944 • 43 citations

Systematic desensitization, muscle relaxation and visual imagery in the counterconditioning of four-year-old phobic child

1969 • 39 citations

Vicarious desensitization of test anxiety through observation of videotaped treatment.

1972 • 39 citations

Phobias of childhood: Etiology and treatment.

1968 • 37 citations

THE AETIOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF CHILDREN'S PHOBIAS: A REVIEW

1961 • 36 citations

Behavior modification techniques and maternal anxiety.

1973 • 36 citations

Treatment of a bodily injury phobia with implosive therapy.

1972 • 33 citations

Children with excessive fears.

1973 • 33 citations

The clinical significance of childhood phobias: a note on the proportion of child-clinical referrals for the treatment of children's fears

1979 • 33 citations

The Changing Nature of Children's Fears.

1973 • 33 citations

Single session recovery from a hemodialysis phobia: A case study

1974 • 32 citations

The elimination of a boy's high-building phobia by in vivo desensitization and game playing

1975 • 31 citations

Extinction of a phobia of physical examination in a seven-year-old mentally retarded boy—A case study

1976 • 30 citations

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF A METHOD OF OVERCOMING CHILDREN'S FEARS

1936 • 28 citations

A FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS IN SCHOOL CHILDREN

1946 • 28 citations

THE BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT OF SCHOOL PHOBIA

1971 • 26 citations

School phobia: A review of theory and treatment

1973 • 25 citations

Desensitization procedures in the treatment of childhood disorders.

1978 • 24 citations

Human fears: a factor analytic study of three age levels.

1967 • 23 citations

Critique of Obler and Terwilliger's "Systematic desensitization with neurologically impaired children with phobic disorders."

1971 • 21 citations

Use of visual imagery in needle phobic children.

1973 • 21 citations

Applying contingency contracting to a school phobic: A case study

1973 • 21 citations

Vicarious extinction of phobic behavior in early childhood

1974 • 21 citations

Manifest Fears and Worries of Ghetto Versus Middle-Class Suburban Children.

1970 • 20 citations

Systematic desensitization therapy with children: A case study and some suggested modifications.

1972 • 16 citations

Treatment of a Case of School Phobia by Reciprocal Inhibition

1967 • 15 citations

[Children who refuse to go to school].

1968 • 14 citations

Strategies for the prevention of maladaptive fear responses.

1975 • 14 citations

Application of the consultant role to parent-teacher management of school avoidance behavior

1973 • 13 citations

Treatment of school phobia as a case of separation anxiety

1967 • 13 citations

Behavior therapy before institutionalization.

1973 • 12 citations

Effect on learning of psychological attachment to a film model.

1970 • 11 citations

School Phobia: Effects of Behavior Modification Treatment Applied By An Elementary School Principal.

1974 • 11 citations

Operant conditioning procedures with systematic desensitization in a hyperkinetic asthmatic boy

1973 • 10 citations

THE EFFECT OF POOR SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN THE PRODUCTION OF NEUROSES

1938 • 10 citations

Combined Psychotherapy and Deconditioning of a Child's Phobia*

1968 • 10 citations

The management of a chronic school phobic through the use of consultation with school personnel

1973 • 10 citations

An Approach to the Problem of Fear in Children

1936 • 9 citations

A reinforcement approach to the elimination of a child's school phobia.

1971 • 7 citations

A modeling film to reduce children's fear of dental treatment

1972 • 3 citations