Kneebone, II & Martin, PR 1992, 'Partner Involvement in the Treatment of Chronic Headaches', Behaviour Change, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 201-215.
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The present study tested the hypothesis that involving the partners of headache sufferers in a group cognitive-behavioural stress-coping intervention for chronic headaches would enhance treatment outcome. A treatment program in which partners were involved (PI) was compared with a standard treatment program in which partners were not included (NPI) and a no-treatment control condition (NTC). The NPI condition was effective compared to the NTC condition, but there was less evidence that the PI condition was effective. No significant differences were found between the PI and NPI conditions at posttreatment or follow-up. These results are considered in terms of the usefulness of involving partners in group headache-treatment and the manner of their involvement. In addition, the possibility that partner involvement may actually detract from treatment effectiveness is discussed in terms of its impact on motivation and personal responsibility for change.
Onslow, M, Doorn, JV & Newman, D 1992, 'Variability of Acoustic Segment Durations After Prolonged-Speech Treatment for Stuttering', Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 529-536.
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Existing literature suggests that one of the effects of treatment based on prolonged speech is increased durations of acoustic segments. However, the external validity of the data concerned may be questioned because the data were not based on spontaneous speech samples and were gathered from subjects with unknown treatment histories. With this in mind, the present investigation used young clients with no history of treatment based on prolonged speech and obtained pretreatment and posttreatment acoustic measures from spontaneous speech samples. Acoustic measures showed no significant posttreatment increases in durations of acoustic segments. However, for the acoustic measure of vowel duration and a measure of articulation rate, posttreatment speech samples showed significantly reduced variability. The potential theoretical and practical relevance of these findings is discussed.
Onslow, M, Hayes, B, Hutchins, L & Newman, D 1992, 'Speech Naturalness and Prolonged-Speech Treatments for Stuttering', Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 274-282.
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It is well known that unusual speech quality may result from stuttering treatments that are based on prolonged speech. However, empirical information concerning the speech quality associated with those treatments is lacking. The present study was designed to contribute such empirical information. Results indicated that speech quality assessments of posttreatment clients, using Martin, Haroldson, and Triden's (1984) speech naturalness scale, gave similar results regardless of whether they were based on monologues or conversations. The speech quality of those clients remained stable at the conclusion of their treatment program. Further, there was a significant, positive correlation between pretreatment speech measures and measures of speech naturalness made after the establishment of stutter-free speech. The subjects whose pretreatment stuttering was the most severe had posttreatment speech naturalness scores that were more than two scale values worse than the subjects whose pretreatment stuttering was the least severe. Speech naturalness scale scores are presented for nonstutterers and posttreatment stutterers and these data are compared with existing findings.
