caa a22 4500 477096387 CHVBK 20180405111528.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02214738 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02214738 Tyson Paul Department of Psychology, Brock University, L2S 3A1, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada aut Biodesensitization: Biofeedback-controlled systematic desensitization of the stress response to infant crying [Elektronische Daten] [Paul Tyson] Infant crying can be a source of parental stress both psychologically and physiologically and also may be an antecedent to physical child abuse or neglect. Biodesensitization is a new therapeutic technique that allows people to control the source of stress and develop self-control over their physiological responses to the stress-eliciting stimuli. Randomly assigned between three groups, 15 female participants were either given EEG biofeedback pretraining without stress, pretraining while listening to infant crying, or no stress management pretraining while listening to crying. After the pretraining manipulation all participants had biodesensitization training while listening to infant crying. Compared to control participants who were habituated to crying, stress management training significantly reduced the EEG cortical arousal as well as perceived arousal, and anxiety associated with listening to infant crying. The shift in participants' EEG power spectrum produced by infant crying was significantly correlated with perceived arousal and this relationship was strengthened after biofeedback training. In conjunction with other research, the experimental results suggest that stress management training may help ameliorate an aversive response to infant crying and possibly prevent child abuse as a response to physiological hyperreactivity. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 biofeedback nationallicence child abuse nationallicence physical nationallicence EEG alpha power spectral analysis nationallicence perception infant crying nationallicence stress management training nationallicence desensitization nationallicence Biofeedback and Self-regulation Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/3(1996-09-01), 273-290 0363-3586 21:3<273 1996 21 10484 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02214738 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02214738 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tyson Paul Department of Psychology, Brock University, L2S 3A1, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biofeedback and Self-regulation Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/3(1996-09-01), 273-290 0363-3586 21:3<273 1996 21 10484 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer