Research supported by a Public Health Service Fellowship and based on a dissertation submitted to the University of Minnesota, March 1968. Reprints from: L.M. Anderson, St. Paul-Ramsey Hospital, Saint Paul, Minn. 55101.

Characteristics of a behavioral approach to remediating academic deficits of learning disabled (LD) children are reviewed. The behavioral approach encompasses individualization and mastery learning, direct teaching, and an emphasis on measurement. (SEW)

Qualitative differences in videotaped mother/infant interactions were found to differentiate four groups of mothers (abusing, neglecting, problematic, and adequate) based on the mothers' welfare service status. Infants were found to display three patterns of interaction: passive, cooperative, and difficult. The original investigation and a…

The effects of teacher praise, ignoring, time-out, and parental contingencies on the number of inappropriate behaviors of two mentally handicapped (IQ's 55 and 51) male students ages seven and nine were investigated in a one-year study. Both students reduced inappropriate noise and behavior, and the frequency of inappropriate behavior remained…

Determined whether values clarification or behavioral counseling was more effective in reducing maladaptive and interfering behaviors among ninth-grade male students. Subjects (N=96) were assigned to values clarification, behavioral counseling, placebo, or no treatment groups. Results indicated values clarification and behavioral group counseling…

The follow-up data reported a long-term (three to nine years out of treatment) evaluation of 40 children who were clients of the Regional Intervention Program (RIP) for disturbed students from 1969 to 1978. (Author)

Provides a conceptual framework for discussing the role of alcohol in a person's life and for planning appropriate interventions when abuse is evidenced. Discusses drive reduction and the dynamic of alcohol involvement through four involvement stages. (Author/RC)

Describes a cognitively based environment treatment approach for group home juvenile delinquents based on Eliminating Self-Defeating Behavior Theory (ESDB). Outlines seven self-defeating behaviors initially developed as coping mechanisms. Discusses results of ESDB as a treatment milieu. (RC)

Investigated the effects of clients' age, physical attractiveness, and behavior on subjects' attraction to the clients. Results indicated that "counselor" subjects were significantly more attracted to child than to adult clients and to clients demonstrating good in-session behaviors. Physically attractive clients were not rated significantly more…

Compared the effects of cognitive-behavioral treatment, behavioral treatment or an attention-control condition on 27 non-self-controlled children. The cognitive-behavioral intervention improved teachers' ratings of self-control and children's self-reported self-concept. Off-task verbal and physical behaviors suggested treatment efficacy.…

Professionals (N=228) were interviewed about their case experiences with neglect and abuse of the elderly. It was suggested that environmental contexts and situational problems trigger such behavior, and that the behavior is primarily based on flawed development of the perpetrator and disordered family relationships. (Author)

Illustrates the use of a response cost token system to decrease inappropriate behaviors of mainstreamed students in the regular classroom. Data were taken on a student's inappropriate request for teacher attention and another student's inappropriate verbalizations. Employed a reversal design. Results showed response cost token system as effective.…