Discussed is a contract", formulated by the teacher and her students at the suggestion of the consultant, designed to encourage less disruptive classroom behavior. The arrangement permits the student to learn or not to learn without having to cope with nagging by the teacher. (Author/CJ)

Describes treatment employing behavior modification techniques and consisting essentially of rewarding the entire class for academic improvement shown by the underachiever. (Author)

The article describes three self-help programs designed to reduce disruption in secondary schools. (SW)

Examined the side effects of parent counseling on marital satisfaction of 27 mothers and their clinic-referred children. Results indicated parent counseling for child noncompliance has a positive effect on parental marital adjustment for those parents who had an initial low level of marital satisfaction. Implications are discussed. (Author/RC)

Subjects (N=32) with recurring procrastination problems were assigned to either of two directive interview conditions (paradoxical or self-control) or to a no-interview control condition. Results indicated both directive groups exhibited generally greater improvement over time than controls and that opposing forms of direction promoted different…

Describes a short-term behaviorally-oriented treatment program for parent-adolescent conflict designed to teach family members effective skills for seeking independence, methods of communicating without antagonizing and alienating, methods for resolving specific issues, ways of identifying and restructuring inappropriate attitudes, and methods for…

The program was developed to minimize classroom disruptions which often occur when a behavior problem student (9 to 13 years old) from a special education homeroom is placed in the mainstream. The program also was designed to encourage on task performance and work completion both in the homeroom and mainstream settings through reinforcement for…

Presents a therapeutic procedure designed to prescribe the family's troublesome behavior pattern. A complement precedes delivering a task assignment. The metaphorical task redefines the serious complaint pattern into only one of the many options a family has for dealing with each other. A case study is presented. (Author/BEF)

Studies that have investigated cognitive behavior therapy methods with clinically relevant child behaviors are reviewed with particular emphasis on subject populations, adequacy of outcome measure, experimental and statistical methodology, and consistency of findings. (MP)

Results of a needs assessment survey completed by 18 teachers of severely and profoundly handicapped students (2-21 years old) indicated that stereotypic behavior, noncompliance, and temper tantrums were among the most difficult to manage behaviors. (CL)

Eighteen second-grade children initially received feedback in the form of nonredeemable tokens for reducing their disruptive classroom behavior. (Author)

Available from: Psychonomic Society, 1108 W. 34th Street, Austin, Texas 78705. Studied with 10 learning disabled children (5-9 years old) was the development of self-management skills without direct teacher supervision through the use of operant reinforcement procedures. (IM)

A 16-year-old male, who presented an 11-year history of severe temper outbursts, was apparently successfully treated by a self-control treatment program. The treatment procedure is described in detail. (Author)