Five groups of eight to 10 mothers were taught how to utilize behavior modification principles for the purpose of generating effective play behavior between themselves and their mentally retarded children (4-to 10-years-old). (DB)

This study attempts to evaluate the effects of one specific positive-reinforcement-oriented contingency management program on students' total and school-related self-concepts as well as their personal and social adjustment. (Author)

Management procedures were successfully employed to decrease the frequency with which first-grade children left small instructional centers. Observations made on the percent of the children's appropriate social and academic behaviors showed increases during the modification conditions. Also, the time the teacher spent in responding to…

Subjects were three nine-year old boys with varying degrees of learning disabilities who tended to be hyperactive and disruptive. When given positive reinforcement for periods of on task behavior,'' their undesired behavior disappeared. As a result, the degree of disruptive behavior for the whole class was decreased during reinforcement periods.…

Assessment of disturbed children and their parents in a natural setting, and procedures designed to divide interaction into fine components are basic in the behavioral approach to child and family therapy. (ST)

Mothers who identified their children as having behavior problems were taught to respond differentially to selected behaviors exhibited by their children. Results indicated that use of child care agents as models may be an effective approach in the modification of child behavior. (ST)

The perception of self-determination (internal control orientation) as a counseling technique for client motivation in rehabilitation programs. (AG)

This report summarizes the evolution of family intervention procedures and considers some of the primary assumptions made within the social learning framework about the determinants of agression and the determinants of behavior change within the family system. (Author/RK)

In the face of previous evidence that academic achievement for disadvantaged adolescents either remains stationary or declines the most significant finding of the present study was the evidence that on no criterion measure did any ethnic group do significantly less well on the after test. (Author)

Individual and group contingencies in controlling undesirable behaviors in 26 educable mentally handicapped children (median age 9 years) in two special classrooms were compared. (Atuhor)

The Adlerian viewpoint maintains that behavior changes in children can be effected by working with significant adults in their lives. This study evaluates the effectiveness of this model of counseling in elementary school. The results on both individual and group bases indicate that it was effective in the described setting. (Author)

Author focuses on the need to begin to specify in greater detail what the inputs are for the child, to define his reasonable living space, and to define which of those factors may alter the course of growth in spite of what happens in the nursery school. (Author/MB)