Most research in smoking cessation has shown no intervention clearly superior or successful. Of those who return to smoking after abstaining, a subgroup includes those who do so incrementally, eventually reaching their former level. An approach aimed at this subgroup, originally used in a group setting, involves intensifying the desire to smoke…

Techniques for modifying behavior with the aim of losing and controlling weight are discussed. A worksheet identifying weight control behaviors is included. (JD)

This mini-guide/workbook on classroom management provides teachers with an introduction to principles used in many accountability plans and helps them to devise a more systematic method of improving discipline in order to produce more student achievement. Part one of the guide deals with approach behavior management, i.e., the student's behavior…

Documents in this bibliography are grouped into fifteen categories under four broad headings. The first heading, health problems, contains documents which cover several aspects of a given type or class of health problems. The categories listed under this heading are: chronic disorders; acute episodes; mental and personality disorders; pregnancy,…

Reviewed is research regarding procedures to enhance the maintenance and generalization of induced behavior changes. Discussion of the procedures is divided into three categories: transfer of training (including treatment under many different stimulus conditions), changing the natural environment (through training parents, peers, and others in…

Academic psychology and education are too much theoretically and methodologically committed; they need "field commitment"--an orientation which allows the people who are working with problem children or adults to use any technique, any tools at their disposal that will enable them to perform most proficiently in a given situation. Until people…

The Juniper Gardens Cooperative Preschool is a Head Start project staffed by the mothers of 30 4- and 5-year-olds who attend the preschool. This paper reports on two studies that attempted to upgrade practices in two teaching skills; classroom management and individual tutoring. The classroom was divided into five activity areas which the children…

This bibliography on approaches to behavior modification with juvenile delinquents lists programs in residential situations, intervention with families, basic education courses, and community-based projects. Virtually every facet of behavior control and modification is covered, including some which are controversial. Citations are not annotated.…

Recent events in behavior modification stimulated application of communication theory to teacher behavior and classroom management. For the purposes of this present investigation, it was assumed that criteria of effective communication are highly dependent on the phenomena of redundancy and consistency, which are both of major importance in any…

This review is concerned with self-confrontation counseling, which is defined as facing a subject with inconsistencies in his motivations or evasions. Such counseling involves two elements: the playback to a subject of his videotaped activity to allow him to view himself as others view him, and feedback to the subject in relation to the videotape.…

To assess behavioral change in the speech of students, a test was developed which used the prior subjective experiences of teachers as a foundation for comparing student behaviors, and objectivized these experiences by developing a rating system upon which teacher observations could be scaled. Twenty raters--10 experienced and 10…

This paper clarifies the development of moral judgement and the means by which educators can stimulate this development. Moral teaching is defined as the process of open discussion aimed at stimulating the child to move to the next step in his development. Research evidence shows that internalized principles of moral judgement cannot be taught,…

These findings suggest that the relative effect of the main therapeutic procedure and expectancy (defined by the presence or absence of a therapeutic rationale and instructions suggesting a positive outcome from treatment) varies with different behavioral therapies. With reinforced practice and covert sensitization the main therapeutic procedure…

The selected bibliography on behavior modification contains approximately 80 abstracts with indexing information explained to be drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of July, 1972. Abstracts are said to be chosen using the criteria of availability of…

Four experiments are discussed, in which parents devised and conducted procedures to alleviate their children's behavior problems. The behavior difficulties treated included infrequent use of an orthodontic device, the low-level performance of household tasks, whining and shouting, and a long duration of dressing time. The techniques used to…