This contingency management adolescent school program integrated vocational training with academic instruction. The students, who were unserved by public education because of emotional handicaps, were afforded an individual treatment program. They demonstrated significant gains in educational skills and exhibited an exceedingly low dropout rate.…

To remove the adversary emphasis from pupil-teacher interactions, the author presents a simple model, showing how an intervention can potentially make a situation better, worse, or unchanged for the pupil and the teacher. A sample scenario is provided of two teachers dealing with a misbehaving child. (SJL)

The article describes six European approaches to the therapeutic education of behavior disordered children and youth. (Author/DLS)

For availability, see EC 103 546. Investigated in a study which followed 135 children from age 2 into first grade was the hypothesis that "authoritarian" styles of child rearing will lead to more home and school problems than will "accomodative" styles. (Author/IM)

Describes a study on the relationship between reading deficiency and disciplinary problems; relates the original data to the same student population's status with regard to high school graduation four years later. (MAI)

Selected variables thought to be possible related to self-injurious behavior (SIB) were studied in 182 mentally retarded institution residents displaying such behavior. (Author)

This article provides an introduction to the practice of reality therapy in the classroom. It discusses behavior modification objections, episode analysis, doing reality therapy, contracts and follow-up, and importance of humor. The author also provides an annotated bibliography and a resources guide for workshops, video cassettes, and tapes.…

State departments of education were surveyed regarding their definitions of behavior disorders, and 49 state definitions were analyzed based on their alignment to 11 criteria components. (Author/DB)

Discussion of U.S. Supreme Court decision (Ingrahm V. Wright) asserting that the Constitution's Eighth Amendment does not protect school children against cruel and unusual punishment and that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not require notice and a hearing prior to the imposition of corporal punishment in the public…

A program of home visits was developed through the Crisis Intervention Unit of the Department of Psychiatry of Toronto East General Hospital in order to provide alternative clinical counselling for psychiatric patients. Preliminary results suggest that home visits have considerable implications for the development of suicide prevention services.…

Investigated with six highly active 4- and 5-year-old Caucasian boys (three Ss labeled by teachers as hyperactive and three controls) was the extent to which inappropriate behaviors and differences in attention span provoked teachers to differentiate between highly active and hyperactive children. (IM)

Discusses research conducted into the development of well-adjusted children reared in disadvantaged homes and environments. (SL)

Students repeatedly urged to try harder often suffer from deficits in learning mode that must be identified and remediated specifically before academic performance will improve. (JG)

Three groups of learning disabled boys, 23 hyperactives, 25 normoactives, and 14 hypoactives, as well as 31 controls, were studied in grade school, and reevaluated at age 14. (Author/MH)