The article presents four conclusions regarding the provision of intervention services to intellectually gifted students with emotional difficulties, along with some examples of the actual process the authors currently employ with such children. (DLS)

Rapid smoking is generally considered to be the most effective single treatment strategy for the behavioral control of smoking. Unfortunately, its safety has recently been questioned. A new procedure termed "focused smoking" poses absolutely no health hazard. (Author)

Examined effects of expectancy and nicotine depletion on withdrawal symptoms by giving 109 smokers nicotine gum or placebo. Subjects who believed they had nicotine gum reported fewer physical symptoms of withdrawal, showed less arousal, and smoked fewer cigarettes than did those who thought they had placebo. Actual nicotine content of gum had no…

Information-processing models of client-centered and rational-emotive counseling are constructed that relate counseling skills and strategies employed in these approaches to hypothesized client cognitive changes. An integrated view of client cognitive change in counseling also is presented. (Author/BL)

Discusses three techniques that can help counselors plot client growth over time: the split-middle method, the two standard deviation rule, and the frequency histogram. (Author/BH)

Two case studies are presented demonstrating treatment of aggression and self-injury in community-integrated work, school, and home settings. Nonaversive treatment strategies were implemented by trained paraprofessionals based on information obtained from functional analyses of the aggressive and self-injurious behaviors of two adults with autism.…

Offers an illustration of how managers can dramatically influence the work ethic of their employees. (Author/IRT)

This report was written with the public, not professional educators in mind, and sought to tell a story without jargon. It discusses the challenges of changing public schools and the setbacks that must be faced. (Author)

Argues that the natural, logical outcome of the struggle for personal freedom in education is for the teacher to improve his control of the student rather than abandon it. Suggests that the free school is no school at all. (Author)

The author reflects with tongue in cheek on how a facilitator's desire to be facilitative may obscure the line between wishful thinking and common sense. (Author)

Discusses the proposition that: "The educational problem involved in behavior modification, in the evaluationand measurement of learning, is the integration and coordination of three types of information affecting the achievement of specific behavioral goals: (1) information about the child, (2) information about the task, and (3) information…

When contingency management procedures were applied to the secondary behavioral deviancies of 2 stutterers, both the secondary problems and the stuttering were reduced. (MH)