Tested a strategy where didactic material on smoking and topics such as social approval, academic achievement, and career success were presented to an experimental college group. Results showed significant changes in responses to cognitive and attitudinal statements and nonsignificant but positive changes in smoker's motivation and behavior.…

Compared various cognitive treatment approaches for ameliorating the difficulties of hyperactive children on tasks requiring sustained vigilance and accuracy. Differential training techniques comparing training in attention to inhibitory control indicated that a combination of attentional and inhibitory control strategies was most efficacious in…

Suggested are many activities for making lunchtime at school an interesting activity. Included are ideas for music, games, movies, decorations, and plays. (KC)

Discusses sex equality, and documents continuing significance of sex bias issues and their relevance for counseling personnel. This article also presents a rationale for counselor renewal in sex equality, competency areas for renewal efforts, and programs relevant for each area of competency. (Author)

Author reviews behavior modification techniques as presented in books written to help parents rear children. Analyzes theoretical and ideological assumptions on which these parenting books are based. Concludes that these books reveal a fundamental disregard for children as persons and therefore require careful and critical evaluation. (Author/JLF)

Described the development of the Assertive Job Hunting Survey which assessed self-reported job-hunting attitudes. The survey met standards for internal consistency and stability. Students demonstrated significant increases in Assertive Job Hunting Survey scores from beginning to end of classes, which applied assertiveness to job-hunting behaviors.…

Investigated the relative effectiveness of therapeutic components common to behavioral marital therapies: procedures designed to change behavior and attitudes, and nonspecific therapeutic effects. Ordering produced three treatment conditions--nonspecific, behavioral, and behavioral-attitudinal. The behavioral-attitudinal group showed significantly…

Presents a model for training counselors to learn to confront empathetically. Describes a confrontation training scale that includes inadequate responses of acquiescing and scolding and the progressively more effective responses of recognizing ineffective behavior, realizing its negative consequences, and committing to change. Suggests confronting…

Two groups of 5-7-year-old behaviorally disturbed boys, involved in a group therapy program, were observed on several occasions near the beginning and near the end of the program in order to determine if there were changes in selected aspects of group structure and social behavior. (MP)

A review of behavioral research in the area of classroom management is presented. Four questions for teachers to ask themselves when a problem in the classroom arises explore the appropriateness of the instructional materials, student understanding of teacher expectations, management effectiveness, and sources of help. (PHR)

Eight hyperactive children (6 to 11 years old) were treated with a behavioral intervention focusing on teacher and parent training over a period of 5 months. The results suggested that the combination of psychostimulant medication and behavior therapy may be more effective in the short term than either treatment alone. (Author)

Three studies demonstrated the viability of using a changing criterion procedure for increasing the work production rates of three severely/profoundly retarded adult workers. (Author/SBH)

Twelve male subjects were divided into three groups (model-plus-reinforcement (MR), model-only, and control) to determine if the presence of a verbalizing model to 35mm slides would elicit increased speech. Verbalization increased over treatments, especially in the MR group. Generalization to the word occurred in only three subjects. (Author/SJL)

The authors suggest that the best way to deal effectively with stress is better management of one's life style. Some of the coping strategies include developing good eating and exercise habits, learning relaxation techniques, building an emotional support system, and anticipating and managing stressful life events. (SK)

It was found that time-out was generally used for physical aggression in younger, brighter persons with shorter histories of institutionalization. (Author/SBH)