The Healthy Rewards study tested the effectiveness of goal setting to encourage behavior change in Latino and African American adults in three northern California counties. Four groups of adults were alternately assigned to receive either 1) basic health promotion and nutrition education without goal setting (control) or 2) the same education with…

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)

Institutionalization, as is widely recognized, has undesirable effects on many sexual offenders, and it often increases the likelihood that they will offend again after discharge. The outpatient program described here combines group interaction with behavioral engineering and may indeed represent an effective alternative. (Author)

Describes a program for treating the mentally ill that pays attention to cultural differences. (Author/CJ)

Describes a family-style, community-based program for severely disturbed adolescents which uses a "point-and-fine" treatment system in which earned points can be exchanged for privileges or lost as fines. The whole treatment combines operant, modeling, and cognitive-behavioral strategies. (CM)

This article describes how biofeedback training (BFT) was employed to stimulate the unconscious and then explains how to use this resource as an integral part of counseling. (Author)

Describes a counseling program at the University of Arizona which is a short, intensive transactional analysis study problem group. Many students are able to apply what they learn to other areas of their lives. (Author)

Cigarette smoking has been a behavioral enigma. Single treatment techniques, when successful, are usually plagued by high recidivism rates and "practical" insignificance. Two recent developments, rapid smoking and comprehensive behavioral programming, hold promise for the eventual behavioral control of smoking. This study describes one such…

Effective academic planning which considers the child's behaviors and skills can be used to manage the inappropriate behaviors of emotionally handicapped children. Academic planning is especially effective when used in combination with behavioral management techniques. Using the child's behavior to determine appropriate tasks and to determine the…

This publication introduces and describes new efforts based on the concept of alternatives to drug abuse. The pamphlet is designed for educators, community groups, drug abuse professionals, treatment personnel, parents and young people. According to those who espouse the alternatives approach, motives for drug-taking inevitably include the need to…

Describes the rationale, specific objectives, and sessions of a course in assertive training developed for young people from approximately 11 to 14 years of age. Responses to the program, cautions for potential leaders, and uses for counselors are summarized. (Author)

Social Competence Training (SCT) is a composite, voluntary program of instruction and group treatment initiated at the California Correctional Institution to work out individual problems of inmates as well as moderating the overall social situation at the institution. (Author)

This article traces one client's progress from chronic unemployability to vocational stability through the use of rational emotive therapy (RET). The authors explain the causality among activating events, belief systems, and emotional consequences. The client is helped toward a view of self-responsibility in determining his own consequences.…

Failing underachievers (n=37) were given structured counseling on academic and vocational goal-setting, course commitment, stressors in study conditions, and academic application. Subjects (n=31) were then assigned to four groups and given desensitization and reeducative training for various combinations of test and academic anxiety and study…

The present case study describes a toilet training program planned, developed, and implemented within a sheltered workshop. The client was a severely retarded woman for whom incontinence had been a life-long problem. The ease with which the program was carried out recommends its use with similar client problems. (Author)