This guide identifies existing materials which form a nucleus of information in the adjustment services field. Five sub-processes within the larger adjustment services process are used as the framework by which this information is structured in the guide. They are (1) behavior observation, identification, and analysis; (2) developing the…

While formal definitions of "psychotherapy' have been notoriously elusive, there appears to be general agreement that it involves a professional relationship between a person seeking help for an emotional or behavior problem and a professional who is recognized by society as possessing a certain expertise. An important concomitant of this…

Presented is an annotated bibliography with approximately 250 entries relating to the severely and profoundly retarded. Citations are listed alphabetically by author under the following categories: assessments, measurements, evaluations; associations; attending behavior; behavior modification; books; classical conditioning; cognitive development;…

Reviews recent experimental studies of social learning therapies for drug abuse and examines the relationship between attention to generalization or maintenance issues and other factors. The behavior modification-behavior therapy literature exhibits consistent deficiencies in its clinical procedures for and methodological approach to…

This bibliography was compiled in conjunction with a research project that conducted a meta-analysis of the developmental disabilities treatment literature dealing with the deceleration of excess behaviors. It lists 318 relevant articles published between January 1976 and December 1987 in 18 psychology and special education journals. The articles…

Most histories of psychology and psychiatry attribute the first group psychotherapy to Joseph Pratt's 1905 class for tuberculosis patients. Pratt's actual treatment procedures are examined. They are shown to have consisted primarily of operant and social-learning techniques, aimed at increasing patient compliance with a demanding therapeutic…

The annotated bibliography on Severely and Multiply Handicapped--Program Descriptions/Operant Conditioning contains approximately 140 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents or journal articles published from 1967 to 1975 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC," Volume 2, contains 17 summaries of documents and journal articles on alternative schools, all of which are indexed in either "Resources in Education" or "Current Index to Journals in Education." The materials included deal with various aspects of this topic, such as reasons for success or failure of…

This paper focuses on the literature related to the formation of stereotypical racial attitudes in children and then organizes and reviews strategies for modification and prevention of such stereotypes. Racial attitudes of preschool and early school age Anglo, Black, and Chicano children towards themselves and each other are included. A brief…

This document contains abstracts of experimental and descriptive educational research in West Virginia. The stated purposes of the document are to disseminate relevent educational research to West Virginia teacher educators, to encourage ongoing research in all areas and at all levels in education, and to develop professional utilization of…

This report summarizes research conducted by, or in collaboration with, the Division TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication handicapped CHildren) of the Department of Psychiatry in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. The summaries contain bibliographic citations for published papers…

The annotated bibliography on early childhood intervention-general theory and programs for handicapped children contains approximately 100 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1968 to 1974 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education…

This publication is a two-part bibliography of resources related to sex equity in vocational education identified during the project described in CE 028 424. Part 1 is an abstract bibliography of sample documents available through the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Document Reproduction Services. The sample includes references in…

A review of the literature was conducted to identify behaviors of vocational educators which in some manner inhibited or reduced sex bias and sex-role stereotyping in vocational education. Of the 57 references selected from five data bases, 45 were descriptive of the problems of sex bias and sex-role stereotyping; 12 provided information regarding…