Progressive Relaxation Training: A Manual for the Helping Professions

Often people come to therapists knowing what they should be doing, but not how to accomplish their goals.In particular, many people know they should "relax" but, as with much behavior therapy with intelligent adults, the problem becomes how to accomplish the task, ans it is in this context that this volume offers its first contribution to the working clinician.... Relaxation procedures may be used, as is described in this volume, as an end in themselves or as a part of more complicated procedures such ass systematic desensitization.