An 11-year-old boy with a six-year history of elective mutism in school was successfully treated with operant reinforcement and contingency management techniques. The plan was carried out by the classroom teacher with a minimum amount of management consultation. (Author)

The present paper describes a method combining thought stopping and covert assertion and reports its application in six case histories the majority of which would usually be classified as phobic rather than obsessional. The paper reports successful followups. (Author/LA)

Peer and subordinate criticism directed at the beginning industrial arts teacher ultimately leads to teacher failure. Skinner's theory of operant conditioning is used as an analogy to explain how the beginning teacher is conditioned to the norms of teaching, resulting in the loss of his enthusiam and idealism. (DS)

Delinquent and non-delinquent male adolescents were asked to give memories from their early childhoods under treatment conditions of verbal praise, attitude agreement, or objective correctness. (Author)

Describes new incentive program which has eased adult-child tension in a home for disturbed adolescents. (ST)

Significant effects obtained in the modeling condition seemed due to the generalized increase in speech duration facilitated by the use of a model. Similarities and differences between instructions and modeling procedures are discussed. (Author)

Authors hypothesized that many teachers have classroom behavior management skills in their repertoires but lack techniques for using them as systematically as possible; conventional postgraduate courses are a vehicle for introducing experienced teachers to these skills. (Editor)