The article discusses the use of stimulant therapy in the treatment of hyperactive children. (DLS)

Appraises two basic classifications of desensitization procedures as applied to the treatment of childhood disorders. (MP)

The author cautions against indiscriminate use of behavior modification by untrained professionals. (CL)

Children's Type A behaviors remained moderately stable over time. The magnitude of the stability did not differ as a function of two versus five years of follow-up, or because of the sex, grade, or community in which the child lived. (PCB)

Presents a case study of one subject's life history, obtained from depth interviews, which reveals the process of change from involvement to noninvolvement in drug use and criminal activity. Explains how, for this subject, rehabilitation was facilitated by specific structural factors which interacted with and altered personal values. (Author/NRB)

Assessed degree of alcohol aversion in 60 alcoholics who received emetic alcohol-aversion therapy. Results revealed changes in response to alcoholic, but not to nonalcoholic, flavors, including decreased consumption in taste tests, more negative flavor ratings, overt behavioral indicants of aversion and increased tachycardiac response. (Author/NB)

Self-concepts of men and women in treatment in a therapeutic community were tested using the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS). Particularly striking are the negative self-concepts of females preparing to leave treatment in the areas of acceptance by family, self, and peers. (Author/BL)

Involuntary clients resist efforts to help them because they do not admit having a problem, they do not want to change, or they do not know how to change. Specific techniques to help these clients overcome various kinds of reluctance and resistance are discussed. (Author/BL)

Argues that evidence for radical discontinuities between underlying organizations at different stages is often equivocal and that polarization of views concerning continuities and discontinuities in development may impede understanding. Specifically discusses major reorganizations, behavioral evidence for reorganization during development,…

The constant task condition in which only trials on the target task were presented during each session led to faster response acquisition by two of four autistic children (9-10 years old) than the varied task methods in which trials for three nontarget tasks were interspersed with trials for the target task. (CL)

Provides evidence (based on observations at an environmental center) which suggests that frequent interaction with a variety of animals provides humans with a form of sensitivity awareness training such that they become more aware of communication on many levels and more finely attuned to feedback sent and received. (JN)

Investigated whether behavior modification would improve short- and long-term results of weight control programs for obese patients (N=53) with Type II diabetes. The behavior modification group lost more weight than the nutrition education or standard-care condition during the 16-week treatment, but at 16-month follow-up, weight loss differences…

Psychologists in a large institution for mentally retarded persons present their observations from a week of serving as direct care staff. They report on the effectiveness of such procedures as reducing the noise level, alleviating crowding, structuring activities, and persisting in correcting resident behavior. (CL)

Shaping behavior by reinforcing a series of successive approximations is discussed, and procedures for promoting internal shaping in children are described. Instructions are given for the "shaping game," by which parents and children can learn the techniques. (CL)