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Peer reviewedFindholt, Nancy E.; Emmett, Catherine G. – Mental Retardation, 1990
A multidisciplinary team, including representatives from medicine, psychology, and residential living, examined 436 mentally retarded residents' regimen of psychotropic medications, with the goal of finding the least restrictive method of behavior management and lowest drug dosage. Significant reductions in psychotropic drug use were observed,…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Children
Tharp, Roland G.; And Others – 1980
This paper discusses community psychology programs which serve members of alternate cultures and are based on the premises that: (1) individuals may possess desirable behaviors that are suppressed by their environmental context; (2) conventional behavioristic methods are inadequate for assessment; and (3) an interdisciplinary approach is needed to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Children, Classroom Environment
