Lithium carbonate is effective in treating some children with polar (mood) disorders, many of whom, the author suggests may be misdiagnosed as hyperactive, schizophrenic, or behavior disorderd. (CL)

This study was conducted to identify the continuing education (CE) elements nurses believed were most likely to influence their nursing practice and to examine R. Cervero's (1982) comprehensive model of continuing professional education. A total of 344 registered nurses returned questionnaires about CE. Using a researcher-developed 37-item…

This course comes from the Rocky Mountain Special Education Instructional Materials Center. (CL)

Reinforcement hierarchy implies movement along a continuum from top to bottom, from primitive levels of reinforcement to more sophisticated levels. Unless it is immediately obvious that a child cannot function without the use of lower-order reinforcers, we should approach him as though he responds to topmost reinforcers until he demonstrates…

The client's expectancy of improvement is regarded as an explanatory construct accounting, in part, for actual psychotherapeutic improvement. Issues involving the conditions under which expectancy effects have been demonstrated, the circular definition of expectancy, the attribution of causality to expectancy, expectancy versus prediction, and the…

The present study demonstrates the effectiveness of exemplary modeling as a role training technique, and results indicate that characteristics of the model are important factors for consideration in psychotherapy analogue research utilizing demonstration. (Author)

Discusses how graphotherapy (analyzing penmanship strokes) could provide a definite, behavioral criteria of each student on a personalized basis. (MM)

A modification of the FitzGerald Method of using heterogeneous groups to facilitate academic achievement in the classroom was tested using 8th grade mathematics classes. (NQ)

This paper presents six irrational attitudes teachers might hold that could interfere with their successfully learning and implementing behavior modification programs (Author)

In contrast to the traditional view that maladaptive behaviors are surface manifestations of underlying emotional disturbances, the behavior modification approach assumes that such behaviors are simply learned ways of adjusting to the environment and are determined by the consequences that follow them. (Author)