ABSTRACT
Behavior therapists have suggested a useful adjunct to educational and clinical trends toward more open and less regressive approaches in dealing with death anxiety. Treatment interventions consisted of systematic desensitization, relaxation, and test-retest groups. Thus, any change on either of these death anxiety measures is unlikely to reflect a reduction in general anxiety. All potential participants who scored in the high death anxious range were approached to participate in the remainder of this investigation and approximately 74 per cent of those approached volunteered to participate. The Death Anxiety Scale is a modified version of the Livingston and Zimet Death Anxiety Scale. The desensitization groups also spent the first half of the third session learning to deepen their relaxation, but the second half of the session involved beginning to work through the death anxiety hierarchy in the prescribed method of desensitization.
