Adaptations of token reinforcement and time out from reinforcement were used for reducing the highly disruptive classroom behavior of a first grade boy. High and low rates of disruptive behavior were paralleled by changes in tardiness from recess behavior thus indicating generalization of conditioning. (Author/CG)

A twelve-year-old profoundly retarded, self-abusive and assaultive child who did not feed himself was motivated to feed himself and modify undesirable responses within eight days. (Authors)

Identified are misconceptions of behavior modification procedures according to which behavior modification is connected mistakenly with noncontingent reinforcement, partial change of a teacher's behavior, decelerations of inappropriate behaviors only, dependency producing technology, teacher dominated activity, a single type of classroom…

The purpose of this paper is to review some of the current research on client motivation for rehabilitation in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic variables. (Author)

A guidance clinic program for disruptive students, based on behavior modification theory and positive reinforcement, has proven effective in dealing with junior and senior high school students who ordinarily would be suspended or excluded from school. (AN)

Benefits from in-company training programs depend on the instructor's effectiveness, participant application of theory to practice, and the superior-subordinate relationship. The article focuses on such program to demonstrate results. (Author/JB)

The major finding of the study is that, although encounter groups have an impact on their participants, what is carried away from the experience depends on particular characteristics of the group in interaction with what participants bring to it. (Author)

This article may be useful to workers who need to help young children to accept dental care. (Editor)

Proceeeding through each chapter of B.F. Skinner's book, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, the author presents selected quotations and then discusses Skinner's main contribution to cognitive-behavior therapy. (CB)