Described are the principles and procedures of Project ADVANCE (Alternate Design for Vocational and Necessary Cognitive Education), a behavior modification program for severely emotionally disturbed children (14 to 20 years old). Among program components are contingency management contracts, a highly structured token economy, the educational team…

This annual newsletter is intended to foster research in the area of cognitive behavior modification (CBM), to influence the diaglogue between behavior therapists and semantic/cognitive therapists, and to bridge the gap between practitioners and researchers. By summarizing what projects are currently underway, what materials are available and…

The subject-controlled graduated exposure of a snake with feedback of exposure times resulted in significantly less avoidance behaviors for snake-phobic subjects than for control snake-phobic subjects who did not receive therapy. (Author)

A total of 64 college-aged and elderly women participated in an experimental study of the effects of noncontingent positive feedback on simple speeded performance, performance self-evaluations, and self-reinforcing behavior. Younger women self-reinforced more and held higher self-evaluations of their performance than elderly women. (Author)

This research was undertaken to determine whether monitoring by peers, self, or teacher would produce the most effective contingency management program. (RC)

Described is a 10-week inservice training course in behavior modification for 10 special educators. (CL)

The students engaged in procedures with each other that were similar to those used with real clients. (Editor/KE)

High- and low-anxiety groups performed a learning task after receiving either achievement-orienting or neutral instructions. While the results showed an overall superiority of low- to high-test-anxiety groups, there was a significant Test Anxiety x Instructions interaction. The results are interpreted in terms of attentional blocks that…

While the notion of "training as a therapeutic treatment" is a popular one and a relatively new development in the field, the authors dip into the past to give a broader perspective on psychotherapy as an educational process in their extensive review of this literature. (Author)

Examines the relationship between locus of control, using both a unidimensional and multidimensional approach, and completion and success in a weight reduction class. (Author)

Revised version of paper presented at the annual meeting of the Adult Education Association (Philadelphia, Penn., November 1967).

Based upon the author's doctoral dissertation (University of Minnesota, 1967).