Response to article in previous issue by Max Bruck (April 1968). Argues that behavioral approach has been empirically demonstrated to be effective in altering problem behavior, and offers advantages over more traditional approaches. Proposes that behavioral psychology can deal with all important aspects of complex human behavior. (Author)

The Keeps All Pupils in School (KAPS) program in Baltimore is discussed. (DB)

All subjects showed significant increases in study habits. However, no condition produced a gain in academic performance beyond chance. (Author)

The author suggests that slow learner" is a label placed on a product of our own inappropriate objectives, educational climate, and evaluative procedures. (Author/CP)

Describes various methods that the teacher can employ to help the child who stutters. (DR)

The study adds further support to Rogers' process theory both in the direction of movement and the kinds of changes individuals make under the stated conditions. In addition, the study suggests that the weekend format induces greater process movement than in weekly time limited groups. (Author)

Discusses the interrelationship between environment and behavior in institutional settings and derives therefrom some understanding of the nature of decision that determines how people live. (Author)

Just as there must be an understanding between counselor and client to effect a change in behavior, so should there be an understanding between counselor and administration concerning which responsibilities belong to the counselor and which belong to other school personnel. (Author/CJ)

Implications from production of depressive behaviors in young monkeys were made for the study of child psychoses. (CB)

Reviews research on verbal labeling and shortTerm memory. (Author/WY)

Unemployment is seen as unadaptive behavior, and its antecedent conditions are examined. Behavioral counseling tactics of goal setting, contingency management, counterconditioning procedures, and social systems intervention are considered in relation to the employment counselor's repertoire of potential helping responses. A hypothetical case is…

A woman who had from childhood suffered from neurotic anxieties of an interpersonal kind had for 10 years been plagued with insistent and fruitless negative thoughts about herself. This transcript deals mainly with her objections to the technique of thought stopping and the efforts that were made to overcome them. (Author)