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Successful Cognitive Manipulation of a Stereotypic Nightmare in a 40 Year Old Male with Down's Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Stephen J. Bradshaw
Affiliation:
North Manchester General Hospital

Extract

Substitution of a happy ending to a recurrent stereotypic nightmare and subsequent assisted rehearsal produced immediate cessation of a previously frequent nightmare and consequent removal of associated fear and distress.

Type
Brief Clinical Reports
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1991

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