Targeted the frequent noncompliant behaviors and negative parent-child interactions each weekday morning in a 12-year-old boy with developmental disabilities and multiple handicaps. "Beat-the-Buzzer" involved setting time limits for the child to get ready for school in the morning and decreasing maternal attention. Data indicated a substantial…

A homeless shelter in South Bend (IN) operates in the awareness that therapy, education, and all the tools of social work are not enough in working with the homeless. Disconnectedness, fear, and mistrust are combatted through a tough love approach that rehabilitates through personal transformation. (SLD)

A New Zealand project involving 17 farmers, 2 scientists, and 2 consultants classified their learning styles and found learning-preference and belief differences. The differences were used to guide design and evaluation of an extension program. (SK)

Mexican mothers (n=105) responded to a questionnaire measuring their beliefs concerning the "corrective effects of punishment." A six-item scale measuring such beliefs was developed, its reliability assessed, and its validity tested using a factor analytic structural equations model. Mothers reported as abusing their children produced…

The ability of education to promote antidiscriminatory behavior toward different ethnic groups was studied for 90 college students, 40 of whom were enrolled in a cultural diversity course. Significant changes in student behavior in the treatment group support the potential for education to enhance the acceptance of diversity. (SLD)

Educators can take several practical steps to increase the success of inclusion for troubled students and their classmates and teachers. The five basic needs of problem students are discussed, along with strategies for meeting their basic needs and dealing with disruptive classroom behavior. (CC)

Recovery from any addiction requires a lifestyle change. Leisure counseling can help recovering persons substitute rewarding leisure activities for addictive behaviors. (SK)

Employees were randomly assigned to preretirement education approaches: 13 to participatory learning, 78 to lecture/discussion groups, and 7 to a nontreatment control group. Participatory learners scored higher on all attitude, two of three behavior, and one of three information gain scales. Perceived involvement in preretirement was positively…

Practical Geriatrics, 10 continuing medical education programs, combine lecture, role models on videotape, problem-based learning, and commitment for change. Tests with four groups of community practitioners (n=83) demonstrated the program's effectiveness in inducing change and sparking participant enthusiasm. (SK)

This study compared guided compliance versus time out as a method of promoting child adherence to adult requests. Time out effected larger increases in percentage compliance among four of five participating children (ages three to six years) with mild developmental disabilities. (Author/DB)

After attending 12 classes, 210 grandparents with 1 son/daughter and 1 grandchild evaluated changes in grandparent behavior and attitudes. Compared to a control group of 185, the participants showed significant improvement. Classes covered feelings and ideas, listening to younger people, lifespan development, family communications, and…

This investigation examined whether auditory prompting tapes could influence performance fluency in three mentally retarded young people. The musical tapes with embedded, interspersed performance cues successfully increased the participants' vocational task fluency and decreased stereotypic behavior in one participant. (Author/DB)

Physicians were asked to commit through learning contracts to pre/posttests, seminar attendance, and follow-up tests and surveys in a continuing medical education program on various new treatments. Results indicated lasting gains in knowledge and behavior changes in patient care. (SK)

Examined effectiveness of regular classroom teachers as mediators for behavior change in regular classroom settings. Findings from 59 first and second graders in experimental and control groups revealed that in-class behavior change was significantly greater for experimental condition than for control condition; although behavior change from first…

From 241 published transcripts of therapy sessions with individual clients, judges identified transcripts containing instances of client manifest commitment and resolve to carry out postsession behaviors. Results indicated 16 therapist methods, mean of 5.07 methods for promoting each instance of client commitment and resolve, and varying sets of…