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Whelihan, William M. – 1978
Behavior modification and behavior therapy techniques with institutionalized and community elderly are powerful approaches which effect changes in behavior quickly and dramatically, and are particularly useful because they involve total staff or family members in their implementation. Unlike psychotropic medications, behavioral approaches do not…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Case Studies
Carlson, Lisa – 1979
The paper reports a project to create a play environment to discourage undesirable behaviors and encourage exploratory play behavior in severely and profoundly retarded institutional residents. It is explained that in addition to information gained from past experience, input from parents, direct-care staff, professionals, maintenance personnel,…
Descriptors: Building Design, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Tidwell, Romeria; Berry, Gordon L. – 1978
Attitudes held by incarcerated youthful offenders are identified as they relate to friends and social relationships, relationships to communities and their agents of authority, club and gang participation, work and leisure time activities, family relationships and responsibilities, and educational and school goals. The investigation served as a…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Counselor Training, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate. – 1979
The papers from three 1979 Congressional hearings examine the abuse and neglect of children, both handicapped and nonhandicapped, in foster homes and institutions. Thirty-two prepared statements are included by representatives of such agencies as the Children's Defense Fund; San Francisco Child Abuse Council; Child Welfare League of America;…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Child Neglect, Children
KONOPKA, GISELA – 1965
THE DIFFICULTIES OF BEGINNING TREATMENT FOR EDUCATION WITH ADOLESCENTS BEFORE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION CHANNELS ARE PREPARED ARE DISCUSSED. THREE PREREQUISITES TO COMMUNICATION--LISTENING, OBSERVING, EMPATHIZING--ARE PRESENTED. OBSTACLES TO COMMUNICATION IN THE HELPING ADULT INCLUDE PRE-OCCUPATION WITH ONE'S OWN WORLD, EGO INVOLVEMENT, FAILURE TO…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer)
President's Committee on Mental Retardation, Washington, DC. – 1979
The document reports the status of over 100 current court cases relating to the rights of handicapped individuals. Court cases are divided into the following categories: commitment, community living, criminal law, discrimination, guardianship, institutions and deinstitutionalization, medical-legal issues, parental rights and sexuality, special…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Court Litigation, Criminal Law, Disabilities
Shusterhoff, Jay – 1980
The manual is designed to acquaint parents and friends of developmentally disabled persons in New York residential treatment facilities with the manner in which a developmental center should be maintained and staffed, the services which should be provided to the residents, and the basic legal rights of the residents. A short summary of rights is…
Descriptors: Adults, Civil Rights, Developmental Disabilities, Institutional Evaluation
San Antonio State Hospital, TX. Office of Education Services. – 1977
This set of training modules presents a general curriculum which addresses the theory, principles and procedures of behavior therapy modification techniques. It is meant to be used in a variety of hospitals, schools, and human development centers; thus it represents a common core of training upon which individual settings can build to provide…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Contingency Management, Curriculum Guides
Zingraff, Matthew T. – 1977
Two general explanatory models have been proposed to account for the emergence and quality of the inmate subculture. The deprivation model focuses upon the notion that correctional institutions are based upon coercion and that the institutional experience degrades and deprives the inmate. The inmates' adaptive response to these…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Disadvantaged Environment, Females
Leopold, Harold S. – 1973
The author considers group therapy as one of the most appropriate approaches to help psychotic patients, especially schizophrenics. He advocates the formation of four graded groups of patients based on the seriousness of their problems. The first is an intake group formed of newly admitted patients. Interaction in a group situation provides the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Group Dynamics, Institutionalized Persons, Interaction Process Analysis
Keating, J. Michael, Jr.; And Others – 1975
Based on a survey of 17 institutions in 14 States and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the study is the first effort to date to evaluate and compare the impact of correctional grievance mechanisms. "Mechanism" is used in a generic sense throughout this study and maybe defined as any administrative process through which the complaints of…
Descriptors: Administration, Correctional Institutions, Grievance Procedures, Institutionalized Persons
McIvor, William B. – 1970
To compare the effects of hypothesis testing strategy training and paired associate training on the verbal abstraction performance of mentally handicapped adolescents, 50 male educable mentally handicapped in residence at a state school were tested. Subjects receiving strategy-oriented training learned to test out associates against nouns that…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Concept Teaching, Evaluation
Ellis, Norman R., Ed. – 1970
The text of Volume 4 represents an international review of research in mental retardation dealing primarily with human and animal laboratory behavior. The contents range through the following topics: memory processes in retardates and normals by Norman Ellis; a theory of primary and secondary familial mental retardation by Arthur Jensen;…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Audiology, Behavior Change, Behavior Theories
PDF pending restorationPedrini, D. T.; And Others – 1974
Letter-letter, letter-number, and number-letter paired associates were used in this A-B, B-C, A-C study. There were two A-C lists, the positive-transfer stimulus-items of one became the negative-transfer stimulus-items of the other, and vice versa. Twenty subjects were included and each learned one A-C list. The main effects included, among…
Descriptors: Adults, Associative Learning, Institutionalized Persons, Learning Theories
Thomas, George – 1973
The relationship between staff orientations and children's performance levels is examined by comparing correlations obtained on these factors in centralized and decentralized institutions for neglected, dependent, abused, and disturbed children. Comparisons are also made of results obtained on the performance of new admissions, children in care…
Descriptors: Centralization, Child Caregivers, Cognitive Development, Decentralization
