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Download full textBluestone, Michael A. – 1984
Physical aggression among institutionalized mentally retarded persons arouses great social concern. To examine the effectiveness of four-point mechanical restraints and a positive adaptive symbol program in the reduction of high frequency, high intensity aggression, three institutionalized severely mentally retarded adolescents (2 females, 1 male)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification
Peer reviewedDuncan, Dee; Matson, Johnny L.; Bamburg, Jay W.; Cherry, Katie E.; Buckley, Timothy – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1999
This study investigated differences in social skills among 203 institutionalized individuals (mean age 43) with severe and profound mental retardation grouped into those exhibiting self-injurious behavior, aggression, both behaviors, or neither behavior. Results indicated that individuals displaying maladaptive behaviors exhibited a restricted…
Descriptors: Adults, Aggression, Behavior Disorders, Institutionalized Persons
Peer reviewedUdwin, Orlee – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Children who had been removed from deleterious family environments were exposed to 10 sessions of imaginative play training. When compared with matched controls, experimental subjects showed significant post training increments in imagination, positive emotionality, prosocial behaviors, and storytelling skills and decreases in overt aggression.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Child Neglect, Creative Thinking
