Schools are increasingly adopting tiered models of prevention to meet the needs of diverse populations of students. This article outlines the steps involved in designing and implementing a systematic Tier 2 behavior intervention within a tiered service delivery model. An elementary school example is provided to outline the identification,…

This paper presents the findings of a case study that examined school attachment and restitution strategies used in a middle years school to determine if the program had provided a viable means of promoting and sustaining positive behaviors among middle years students. Data were gathered by interviewing five teachers who had Restitution I training…

The social interactions of three children were studied in a nursery school classroom. Collections of cards termed "mixies" were used as response consequences. By the third session, each child performed target behavior everytime he had an opportunity to do so. (HMV)

The author reports on a study to determine the effect of a training program on the rate of praise statements and reprimands of a mother and the subsequent effect upon her daughter's rate of compliance to requests. (MJB)

Discusses how inconsistent nurturing as control theory asserts that because of competing goals of nurturing and controlling, partners of drug-dependent individuals will unintentionally encourage the very behavior they are trying to extinguish through inconsistent manifestations of reinforcement and punishment. Finds that partners of substance…

This book was written with the aim of helping teachers deal with those behavior problems which are commonly encountered in the classroom and around the school. Part 1 discusses the background to behavior problems, psychological approaches to problem behavior, and factors affecting behavior. The assessment of behavior problems is the topic of Part…

This booklet is about changing human behavior in everyday settings in the school and home. The approach to human behavior outlined is called "behavior analysis," which is based on that approach to psychology called the exerimental analysis of behavior. The ABC model of behavior is explained. In this model, the A refers to the "antecedent" that…

Overcorrection is a mild punishment technique that provides for logical consequences of inappropriate behaviors. The method has two components--restitution, during which a disruptive environment is reinstated to a state vastly superior to the original one, and positive practice, during which more appropriate responses are taught to replace the…

Response-cost refers to a procedure whereby a positive reinforcer is lost or some penalty is invoked following a specific misbehavior. In an alternate procedure called Differential Reinforcement of Other Responses (DRO), a reinforcing stimulus is delivered when a particular response is not emitted for a specific interval of time. This study…

A three-school study suggests that more intensive teacher effort, more attention to contriving successful pupil reading experiences, and freer delivery of "payoffs" to pupils who are reading, offer the possibility of modifying pupil attitudes about reading. (Author/RL)

Presenting a five-step positive reinforcement model for teachers and prospective teachers wishing to achieve a greater degree of self-management, this article includes discussions: selecting a goal; recording the quantity and circumstances of behavior; changing setting events; establishing effective consequences; and focusing on environmental…

The Educational Supervision Program is designed to define the role of teacher supervisors and to identify and teach the skills needed for effective supervision. The program is based on social learning theory, which assumes that behavior change depends on the presence of three factors: (1) belief in the ability to change; (2) knowledge of probable…

Marketing and health promotion share a number of goals and techniques. The PRECEDE framework, developed as a model for health educators, illustrates how marketing can be applied to health programs. Its application to meet the needs of a rural family planning clinic is described. (PP)

The increased use of assigned tasks in social work practice heightens the need for techniques that practitioners can use to enhance the likelihood that clients will adopt the desired behavior. The authors describe several techniques that have received empirical confirmation in research studies. (Author)

The behavioral view that depression results from inadequate, ineffective and/or insufficient reinforcers was explored. Since the depressed person does not act in a manner open to positive reinforcement by others, he suffers ongoing and deepening depression. The task of the therapist is to improve behavior, especially social skills, so that the…