A six-week program in a physical development clinic was successful in increasing risk-taking behavior in 49 boys. The change seemed to represent a generalized behavior shift. (WY)

Study demonstrates that performance of imitative acts may be highly related to a complex interaction between the child's reinforcement history and current reinforcement inputs. (Author)

Counseling involved the systematic use of positive reinforcement to shape each child's behavior toward adaptive responses and negative reinforcement to extinguish interfering responses. Results indicated significant changes in adaptive and interfering behaviors occurred within the counseling situation. Adaptive behaviors increased and interfering…

Research supported in part by the National Institute of Mental Health. Reprints from Kenneth Heller, Dept. of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.

Survey results showed a reduction of 22.3 percent in the use of major and minor tranquillizers, indicating that a change in the emphasis of care toward training and a less institutionalized environment may help to reduce the need for drug therapy to control deviant behavior in intellectually handicapped people. (Author/SW)

The Assessment-Intervention Model for Deaf-Blind Students (AIM) was field tested with 37 deaf blind students, and their progress was compared to that of 40 students in schools using other curricula. Analysis supported claims for AIM's sensitivity to the small behavioral changes typical of these children. (Author/CL)

A token reinforcement program was successful not only in promoting positive behavior changes in a mainstreamed behavior problem second grader but also in creating attitude changes in her regular class teachers. Findings suggest that positive commitments to mainstreaming were related to the teacher's effectiveness in improving students'…

Intervention (modifying the reading activities so that the learner spent more time actively engaged in reading-related tasks) significantly reduced the rate of handgazing behavior in an 18-year-old severely mentally retarded woman. (Author/CL)

Studied interaction styles of premarital couples (N=148) and developed a typology of couple interaction at two points in time before marriage. Results showed only 7 percent of the couples had the same type of interaction at the two testings, supporting the hypothesis that premarital relationships are fluid. (WAS)

The Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale was administered to 54 full-term, healthy infants on days 1 through 5 and on days 7 and 10. Infants were divided into eight groups, differing in terms of the obstetrical medication mothers received. Low dosages of obstetrical medication were found to have significant but subtle effects on the…

A five-and-one-half-year-old boy with encopresis (fecal soiling) was successfully treated by a cognitive behavior modification approach in which the child's lavatory time was scheduled and the situation was discussed in an accepting but positive manner. (CL)