Just as there must be an understanding between counselor and client to effect a change in behavior, so should there be an understanding between counselor and administration concerning which responsibilities belong to the counselor and which belong to other school personnel. (Author/CJ)

Implications from production of depressive behaviors in young monkeys were made for the study of child psychoses. (CB)

Reviews research on verbal labeling and shortTerm memory. (Author/WY)

Unemployment is seen as unadaptive behavior, and its antecedent conditions are examined. Behavioral counseling tactics of goal setting, contingency management, counterconditioning procedures, and social systems intervention are considered in relation to the employment counselor's repertoire of potential helping responses. A hypothetical case is…

A woman who had from childhood suffered from neurotic anxieties of an interpersonal kind had for 10 years been plagued with insistent and fruitless negative thoughts about herself. This transcript deals mainly with her objections to the technique of thought stopping and the efforts that were made to overcome them. (Author)

In an 8-week double-blind comparison, haloperidol reduced the severity of the target symptoms impulsiveness, hostility, and aggressiveness in significantly more mentally retarded children than did chlorpromazine. (Author)

The treatment program for the modification of self-destructive behavior of an institutionalized mentally retarded boy who needed constant physical restraints employed a variety of approaches and emphasized the development of an interpersonal relationship. (KW)

Treatment by mail effected positive change in self reported procrastination and distraction for students who had relatively better study skills. The treatment produced no effect on grades. (Author)

A token economy program established for psychiatric patients compared them to a control group on ward behavior, rating scales, participation in instrumental role activities, self care behavior and extra hospital visits. Results indicated improvement on ward behavior rating scales and greater participation in instrumental role activities for…

Ideas judged to be significant for the future development of special education are considered: learning disabilities and the problem of definition, preschool and infant education, language development, behavior modification approach, and attention as a critical process. The interrelationships between general and special education and basic and…

A language development program for a 6-year-old boy with limited language development combined an operant approach in the foster home, where both parents were speech clinicians, and daily 3-hour therapy sessions at a university speech and hearing clinic. (KW)

Guidelines from behavioral science theories vs those from experience for effecting managerial style changes. (RA)

Approach described derives from social exchange theory as developed by Thibaut and Kelley, and states that successful therapist must provide client with a series of experiences of low hedonic outcome first to block disordered behavior and then to induce client into new behaviors with which he needs construct revising experiences. Presented at…