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Keat, Donald B., II – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1990
Examines some of the effective ingredients of change in multimodal counseling with children: personal relationships; emotions; guidance of actions, behaviors, and consequences; imagery; health; learning; and need to know. (ABL)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Children, Counseling Techniques
Poarch, John E. – 1990
The concept of limits on child and teenage behavior is discussed in this book. Section I includes the core hypothesis of the theory of limits and discusses these essential concepts: (1) the pleasure/pain principle (the need to increase tolerance for stimulation in the pain center of the brain in order to be able to tolerate more stimulation in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Standards, Child Rearing
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Hutchinson, Roger L. – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1990
Claims termination of counseling is punishment, not reward, to emotionally starved children from troubled environments. Discusses how counselor decided to allow students to come for weekly counseling if the student exhibited reasonably acceptable behavior that week. (ABL)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Children, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Tierney, Jeff; And Others – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, 1993
Describes Boys Town model which, grounded in research on development and dynamics of aggression, targets seven critical skills for creating safe, positive treatment environments that empower aggressive youth to change. Discusses these skills: relationship building components; praise and differential reinforcement; behavioral specificity;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Behavior Change, Change Strategies
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Gordon, Rita; And Others – Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 1986
For a seven-year-old autistic boy, contingent jogging caused a significant decline in frequency of out-of-seat behavior that was maintained for 12 months. Unlike many other behavior suppression techniques, contingent exercise is safe and does not humiliate the client. (Author/LHW)
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification
Camp, Bonnie W.; Bash, Mary A. – 1978
This program adapts the Think Aloud method, originally designed to assist young aggressive boys in achieving greater self-control, to improve problem-solving skills among first and second graders. Modeling of self-instructional verbalizations is used to teach children a systematic approach to analyzing a problem, planning an attack and evaluating…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Children, Inservice Teacher Education, Modeling (Psychology)
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Gress, James R. – Action in Teacher Education, 1992
The article examines the social/emotional development of children of substance abusers and relates it to their behaviors at school, offering an alternative perspective for understanding their school behaviors and for helping them. Several implications for teacher education are included. (SM)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Development