David Wark

• PhD
• Professor Emeritus at University of Minnesota

End-stage renal disease is an irreversible, fatal, condition. There are two treatments that extend life, dialysis, and transplant. Both are accompanied by recognized consequences. Although the emotional impacts are extensive, and the symptoms are treatable, there have been very few reports of their amelioration by hypnosis. This article summarizes...

Alert hypnosis has a growing body of evidence to support its use in resolving trauma symptoms. There is also research to support the use of tai chi in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Integrating alert hypnosis with tai chi movements offers the potential to further the benefits of both approaches. Patients have an opportunity...

Alert hypnosis can be a valuable part of the treatment protocol for the resolution of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research indicates that combat veterans with PTSD are more hypnotically susceptible than the general population. For that reason, it is hypothesized that they should be better able to use hypnosis in treatment. As opposed to...

Modern research techniques show that hypnotic induction involves behavioral and cognitive inhibition as components of many hypnotic phenomena. One standard laboratory technique for measuring cognitive inhibition is the Go/NoGo procedure. The procedure moves the average, or centroid, of electroencephalography signals toward the frontal, or anterior,...

In laboratory research, hypnotic suggestions have increased simple learning performance. There is also evidence that hypnosis may be used to increase higher level cognitive processes such as reading speed and listening comprehension. But using a traditional, relaxed, eyes-closed induction made it difficult to read and take tests and do other activi...

This article summarizes the search for efficacious hypnotic treatments. Eighteen major meta analyses were reviewed and the results evaluated using the criteria of Chambless & Hollon, (1998). The analysis identified 32 disorders for which hypnosis can be considered a possible treatment, 5 for which it seems effective, and 2 for which it appears spec...

This review summarizes the use of hypnotic inductions while the subject is physically active, open-eyed and focused on the external environment. Research cited from several sources documents that traditional and alert inductions produce similar hypnotic susceptibility scores, but after an alert induction, subjects may report feeling more alert and...

Although hypnosis has been used for centuries, there are few reports of systematic, professional training. The most thorough codification of instructional content is the Standards of Training in Clinical Hypnosis (SOTCH) (Elkins & Hammond, 1994), endorsed by The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH), and The Society of Clinical and Experimen...

This paper reports the effects of self-hypnosis used by 51 college students enrolled in a 10-week course on efficient learning skills. All students were administered the Creative Imagination Scale. Subsequently, they learned to enter and deepen alert self-hypnosis. They gave themselves personal suggestions and then studied in hypnosis. They reporte...

The Therapeutic Learning Program (TLP) is a structured, model-based treatment designed to help clients counter self-doubts that interfere with personafdevelopment. Specific information is collected and a therapist helps the client interpret it, select goals, and overcome emotional barriers to action. Undergraduate volunteers (N = 66) seeking counse...

Describes a 2-day college orientation program that focused on discussion of students' career interests, responsibilities and life development during the college experience, and expectations held by student advisers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

Recent research demonstrates a negative correlation between test anxiety and reading comprehension by college students. Seemingly, high anxious students get lower comprehension because they ignore or do not integrate cue's from different parts of the text. For the clinician, the problem is how to diagnose test anxiety. The Test Anxiety Scale (TAS)...

Used the Minnesota Scholastic Aptitude Test to study 22,538 female and 22,770 male high school students representing almost all high school juniors in Minnesota. Results indicate a relationship between birth order and verbal intelligence. The proportion of planned college attendees decreased, and the proportion of students interested in technical t...

The use of a pair of portable cassette tape recorders for desensitization is described.

The initial means for arriving at a dynamic model of reading were suggested in the form of "behaviormetric" research. A review of valid reading models noted those of Smith and Carrigan, Delacato, and Holmes as eminent, and it distinguished between models based on concrete evidence and metaphors of the reading process which are basically speculative...

The case histories of five students enrolled in a university course in how to study are reported. The students ranged in age from 18 to 35, included two males and three females, and varied in school experience from no college in one case and some college in two cases to college degrees in two cases. Students were initially taught to chart their own...

THE USES OF OPERANT CONDITIONING TECHNIQUES IN A COLLEGE READING AND STUDY SKILLS CENTER ARE DISCUSSED IN RELATION TO RESEARCH FINDINGS. OPERANT TECHNIQUES WERE USEFUL IN GATHERING DATA ON STUDENT BEHAVIOR AS WELL AS IN INCREASING THE PRECISION OF THE DATA GATHERED. THE EFFECT OF THESE TECHNIQUES ON READING AND HANDWRITING RATE ARE DISCUSSED AND CA...