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Gallen, Mel – 1974
This study attempts to identify the specific demographic and sociological characteristics related to improvement for 48 male alcoholic patients who participated in two contrasting one-month inpatient treatment programs. Of the 48 subjects, 27 participated in a broad spectrum behavior therapy program (experimental group). The remaining 21 subjects…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Demography
Harris, Paul W.; And Others – 1973
This paper describes the value of life change as a nonintellectual predictor of college grades. A correlation was sought between the amount of change experienced and grade point average (GPA) accumulated by students during their freshman year. Three hundred freshmen were evenly divided into low, medium, and high academic risk groups as indicated…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Attitude Change
Mahoney, B. K.; And Others – 1977
Data are from a large scale experimental study which was designed to evaluate a multimethod problem solving approach to obesity. Obese adult volunteers (N=90) were randomly assigned to three groups: maximal treatment, minimal treatment, and no treatment control. In the two treatment groups, subjects were exposed to bibliographic material and…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Bibliotherapy
Jenkins, Karen; And Others – 1979
With the recent trend towards diversionary projects for juvenile law offenders, various threapeutic residential and outreach models have been introduced. It was hypothesized that there are family characteristics which are related to high incidences of continued delinquent behavior, and that males from single parent, low-income families will be the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Counseling Effectiveness, Crisis Intervention, Delinquency