This study reports a successful classroom intervention program which was designed to curb encopresis. It used positive consequences in combination with negative consequences, rather than negative consequences alone. Also it utilized a reversal strategy to evalulate the efficacy of the treatment variables. (Author)

The Urbana-Champaign Adolescent Diversion Project (ADP) involves children, parents, professors, graduate and under-graduate students, policemen, teachers, and community social service workers in a cooperative effort to divert youngsters in legal jeopardy from the juvenile justice system. Its three goals are: (1) to provide juveniles with an…

The paper provides summaries of three presentations entitled: "Family and Parent Variables Affecting Outcomes of a Parent Mediated Intervention" (S. Rosenberg and C. Robinson), "The Home as Learning Environment: Using Food Activities to Develop Reading Skills" (R. Handel), and "A Behavior Management Technique for Maladjusted Teenagers in a Public…