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Describes the SUCCESS program which is based on the idea that success plays a major role in determining a child's self concept and future goal setting behavior, and that systematic parental attention and positive reinforcement are basic to helping each child feel successful and valuable as a person. (MS)

Two experiments were performed in the naturalistic setting of a preschool classroom in order to assess the effects on children's social behavior of nonevaluative teacher attention to the children's cooperative or aggressive speech. (Author/JMB)

This paper focuses on how the sociological perspective can make significant contributions in providing a meaningful conceptual framework for analyzing self concept changes. Insight in explaining why only certain kinds of limited changes typically occur among sensitivity group participants is presented. (Author)

Families were interviewed in their homes to examine their perceptions concerning an adolescent member's psychiatric hospitalization. (Author)

This paper contrasts the spread and change strategies in two applied behavioral science movements, psychoanalysis and the laboratory method of experiential learning. (Author)

Clients were asked to state and rate severity of their presenting problem at the initial interview. A follow-up questionnaire allowed a self-report measure of change (as compared to satisfaction) to be constructed, used to assess the counseling service. Presented at the meeting of the American Personnel and Guidance Association, Chicago, April…

Catch Them Being Good is a behavior modification program that may be used by school counselors to teach parents skills that can help them deal with their child's behavioral problems. This article describes the sessions with parents. (Author)

Twelve aggressive second grade boys participated in daily, 30-minute, individual sessions for 6 weeks to test the hypothesis that the "Think Aloud" self control training program, which involves modeling and verbalization of cognitive activities, would lead to improvement in test performance and teacher ratings of classroom behavior in…

The effects of model similarity on the behavior of 30 educable mentally retarded Ss (intermediate or junior high levels) were investigated. (Author/DB)

The study compared the effects of two forms of intervention on a three-year-old autistic female. Marked improvement in tantrum control, expressive language, and reduced obsessional behaviors were associated with the use of behavior management techniques, whereas developmental stimulation through play and positive adult contact produced no…

An exercise to teach medical students counseling skills for promoting change in health-related behaviors using trained patient instructors and immediate feedback was found to be more effective than using simulated patients and videotaped interviews. (MSE)

Examines the ways hypertension therapy-related stress is mediated by extended family-based self-help groups in rural, central Mississippi. Concludes that these self-help groups are the best means of controlling hypertension in this area because they are built upon an existing family structure and involve the entire extended family in adapting to…

Using an ethnographic approach, this study described the activities of an alternative high school program and explained how the economically disadvantaged students, who had been rejected in conventional school settings, responded to the alternative school environment. According to students, the alternative setting was far more conducive to their…