Comprehensive research and a highly-trained workforce are essential for the improvement of health and health care both nationally and internationally. During the past 40 years the National Research Services Award (NRSA) Program has played a large role in training the workforce responsible for dramatic advances in the understanding of various…

In this progress report a summary of activities of the Pennsylvania Day Care Study Project is organized along the following framework: (1) design of an information management system, (2) the core analysis, and (3) exploratory studies. Activities needed in the future to accomplish goals are discussed as well as completed aspects of the project. (DP)

A brief review of the findings of the Surgeon General's report, Television and Growing Up: The Impact of Televised Violence," together with comments on the origins of the committee, its composition, and dissenting interpretations of the data. (AL)

This article, exploring the degree of our freedom to act, was based on some intriguing hypotheses relating behavior to brain function. (Author/RK)

This paper presents rationale, methodology, and implications for using action plans to facilitate behavior modification of college students in marriage education courses. Case studies are given as illustration of how action plans may be implemented. (Author)

An active five-session, individualized treatment approach to the stopping of smoking is described. This approach emphasized the following: (a) the feedback, in and out of hypnosis, of the client's own reasons for quitting, (b) the visualization of both positive and negative smoking experiences meaningful to the client, (c) maintaining contact with…

The purpose of this study is to develop a model of techniques and considerations that can be used by the field of corrections to cope with prison hostage situations. Because of the fact that no two hostage situations will be exactly alike, the considerations and techniques explored are general in nature and will require evaluation and modification…

This paper reflects an attempt to chronicle the events, articles, and hearings which concerned the application of behavior technology in adult prison systems between January 1, 1973 and November 1, 1974. The events of this time period are viewed by the author as demanding the attention of behavior therapists, legislators, correctional officials,…

In 1968-69 the American Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, under contract to the United States Office of Education, reviewed compensatory education projects across the country. A total of thirty-one were identified as among the most successful. By summarizing each of these 31 projects briefly, this publication enables readers to…

This report describes the longitudinal research conducted in an early intervention program since 1966. The program is characterized by the use of paraprofessionals serving as home visitors and parent educators. Data collection has included measures of children's behavior and development, parent-child interactions, and parent variables such as…

The present final report covers the various activities of the Center for Research on Language and Language Behavior at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor during the final year of its operation before its closing on January 31, 1971. A prefatory section lists completed projects and the availability of individual reports. Included in this…

This paper describes the results of some same-college-age peer tutoring experiments. It is based on a theoretical model that calls for greater satisfaction and performance to result from being assigned the role of tutor than of tutee, and under equitable (status-congruent) rather than inequitable conditions. Same-sex tutoring pairs were formed of…

This paper describes the results of a study to: (1) design and evaluate three clinically practicable (e.g., non-analogue) regimens which emphasize treatment components of either behavioral rehearsal and feedback, anxiety management, or a combination of anxiety management and behavior reversal/feedback, and (2) examine the relative effectiveness of…

Anxiety, or stress and tension, is a major problem in education for teachers as well as students. Training in the self-management of stress and tension seeks to help a person learn how to reduce tension and how to change the stress-producing features of the environment. The training program described in this paper is based on a variation of…

Describes a residential care program for children that involves parents in the role of treatment partners in making assessment, treatment, and discharge decisions for their children. (CM)