Discussion based on premise that self worth and ability to love are learned, are essential learnings for survival, and that educational system needs to look at them as major aims. (Author)

Digest of papers of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting American Orthopsychiatry Association (San Francisco, California, March 23-26, 1970). (RD)

The author urges wider use of positive reinforcement theories in helping emotionally disturbed and mentally handicapped children. Underlining the influence of environment on behavior, he also notes that behavior modification programs utilize fewer trained personnel more effectively and, like Tennessee's Re-Education Treatment, allow for therapy in…

The generalizability theory approach to the estimation of reliability is outlined, and a design is developed in which systematic variations in behavior over differing situations are separated from random fluctuation. Three coefficients of reliability are proposed. (CK)

Behavior changes which improve school performance can be facilitated by cooperative efforts of elementary counselors and parents. Through modeling procedures and brief instruction in the principles of behavior modification, parents can be trained to systematically reinforce behavior which facilitates learning. (Author)

The importance of early attention to the mental development of preschoolers cannot be underrated, especially in the case of children from low-income families. Early Childhood education can help the child become aware of his abilities and foster in him a desire to develop them. (CK)

Differences in SVIB patterns of entering freshmen classes are analyzed. Results indicate shifts in student population toward greater intellectual ability and interests, effects of cultural change, need for educational and curricular reform to take these shifts into account and need for local normative information on basic interests. (Author)

Study results show that investment of time by a counselor in working with a teacher to help reduce disruptive classroom behaviors is time well spent. Not only is the teacher better able to cope with the specific behavior problem of the moment, but she has insights for future handling of classroom problems. (CJ)