Undergraduates, trained to discriminate understanding from nonunderstanding statements, verbally reinforced each statement they felt to be understanding during counselor interviews. Ratings indicated that beginning counselors had increased their understanding statements, suggesting that such statements can be a function of the number of…

An empirically based strategy for creating videotaped peer social models is presented along with a description of four tapes found effective in stimulating career exploratory behavior among male adolescents. (Author)

Results of the study demonstrate that adolescents are influenced in the choices they make by the actions and expectations of others in similar decision making conditions. (Author)

This article describes the counselor educator as a model who can combine positive reinforcement techniques, imitative learning, and microcounseling skills to share studnet-counselor development. Pertinent research and theory are reviewed. (Author)

Describes learning disabilities of five children, principle teaching techniques used, and incorporation of linguistic principles in teaching the program. (MM)

Conformity to peer expectations appears to be crucial in explaining premarital sexual activity and attitudes. Moreover, College students conform not only to their friends, but also to their age-mates in general. (Author)

This study investigated the therapeutic feasibility of self-administered punishment of imagined behavior. With heavy-smoking males, the imagined-smoking treatment was the only highly effective therapy. It was significantly more effective than the placebo or actual-smoking treatments, and it replicated. (Author)

Uses factor analysis to determine structure of problem behavior as perceived by mothers and teachers, and to determine similarity among problem behaviors of disabled children, children in regular classes and distrubed or delinquent children. (Author)

Study of 562 high school and junior high school students yielded that smokers were lower on measures of "Agreeableness and "Strength of Character, and were higher on measures of "Extraversion than nonsmokers. Supports use of findings in developing antismoking educational campaigns aimed at preadults. Reprints available from author, Department…

Study results indicate that individuals distinctly prefer one kind of arrangement over other alternatives and that group members interact in such a way that identifiable differences among participant groups are noticeable. (Author)

Presents an analysis of the counseling interview derived from the study of television recordings. Suggests that the basic elements of the counseling process (attending, island, and hiatus behavior) are no different than basic elements of human interaction processes. (Author)

Clinical and experimental data are cited to show that not expressing anger can also have maladaptive consequences: poisoning" of relationships, psychosomatic disorders, and impairment of cognitive functions. The article by Berkowitz is critically analyzed. (Author/EK)