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Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools: Enabling Creativity, Sociability, Communication and Learning
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Leigh, Lauraine, Ed.; Gersch, Irvine, Ed.; Dix, Ann, Ed.; Haythorne, Deborah, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools" is the first book to specifically evaluate the unique value of dramatherapy in the educational environment. A variety of highly experienced dramatherapists, educational psychologists and childhood experts discuss the benefits to the children and young people, and also in relation to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Needs, Educational Psychology, Academic Achievement
Restructuring an Existing Token Economy in a Psychiatric Facility for Children.
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Moore, James W.; Tingstrom, Daniel H.; Doggett, R. Anthony; Carlyon, William D. – Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 2001
Restructuring an existing token economy (TE) in a psychiatric facility for children led to increased point-earning and decreased daily trips to seclusion. Restructuring occurred through operationalization of target behaviors and reduction of time between receipt of reinforcers and opportunity to exchange tokens. Results suggest changes in basic…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Children, Operant Conditioning, Program Effectiveness
Stuttering: An Integration of Contemporary Therapies. Publication No. 16.
Guitar, Barry; Peters, Theodore J. – 1980
In recent years, most disagreement about stuttering therapy has boiled down to a preference for one of two major approaches. Some clinicians have preferred to help stutterers learn not to avoid stuttering, but to approach it and to learn to stutter in simpler and easier ways; this approach is known as stuttering modification therapy. Proponents of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Behavior Modification, Children
Effects of Behavior-Contingent and Fixed-Time Release Contingencies on Frequency and Duration of Therapeutic Restraint
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Luiselli, James K.; Pace, Gary M.; Dunn, Erin K. – Behavior Modification, 2006
Reducing therapeutic restraint is a desirable outcome for programs that serve individuals who exhibit challenging behaviors. This study investigated the effects of modifying the criterion for release from therapeutic restraint on frequency and duration. Release from restraint was changed from a behavior-contingent criterion (restraint terminated…
Descriptors: Therapeutic Environment, Behavior Modification, Adolescents, Aggression
Stuttering Therapy: Prevention and Intervention with Children. Publication No. 20.
Speech Foundation of America, Memphis, TN. – 1982
This volume contains five papers presented at a conference on developmental and environmental factors related to the onset of stuttering, evaluation and treatment procedures, and the measurement of therapy outcomes. In "The Development of Fluency in Normal Children," C. W. Starkweather considers evaluation of the fluency of young…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Behavior Modification, Children, Handicap Identification
Stuttering Therapy: Transfer and Maintenance. Publication No. 19.
Speech Foundation of America, Memphis, TN. – 1984
This volume contains six papers presented by speech therapists at a conference dealing with principles and procedures that are crucial to transfer and maintenance of the modification of stuttering and the production of increased fluency. E. G. Conture, in "The General Problem of Change," addresses some of the general issues which affect…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adolescents, Adults, Behavior Modification