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Horn, Eva M.; Warren, Steven F. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1987
The effects of a combined neuromotor/behavioral approach using a microcomputer mediated teaching system on the acquisition of basic motor skills by two young children (17- and 24-months-old) with severe and multiple disabilities were examined. Increased frequency and duration of target behaviors in both training and generalizing settings were…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Computer Assisted Instruction
Peer reviewedLansky, David; Vance, Mary Ann – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1983
Assigned children (N=114) from stratified blocks of percentage overweight to a comprehensive behavioral program or to a no-treatment condition. The average child in treatment declined to percentage overweight 5.71%; children in the control group gained 2.41%. Parental participation was correlated with weight change among children in the treatment…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Modification, Comparative Analysis, Intervention
Peer reviewedTwentyman, Craig T.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1980
Assessed the effectiveness of covert modification procedures in an assertion training program. All treatment groups were superior to the control in behavioral ratings of assertiveness during the posttest in those situations that had been employed previously in treatment; two were superior in those that had not been used, providing evidence of…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Rating Scales
Peer reviewedStricker, Jason M.; Miltenberger, Raymond G.; Garlinghouse, Matthew; Tulloch, Heather E. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2003
This article describes use of the Awareness Enhancement Device with a typically developing 6-year-old child to reduce finger sucking despite the child's lack of motivation. This device delivers a tone contingent on occurrence of the target behavior. Substantial reductions in finger sucking resulted only with the addition of a more intense tone (90…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Children
Peer reviewedDesbiens, Nadia; Royer, Egide – Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 2003
A study evaluated a program for 54 elementary students with behavior problems in regular classrooms in Quebec. The program combined in-class social skills training and specific educational activities with peers, namely cooperative learning and tutoring by a prosocial peer. A modest effect size showed a relative improvement in social behavior.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedZarcone, Jennifer R.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1991
This replication study found that only 16 of 55 raters agreed on the category of reinforcement maintaining a disabled individual's self-injurious behavior after using the Motivation Assessment Scale. Additionally, only 15 percent of the correlation coefficients obtained were above 80 percent, and none of the reliability scores was above 80…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales
Direct linkHoza, Betsy; Gerdes, Alyson C.; Mrug, Sylvie; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Bukowski, William M.; Gold, Joel A.; Arnold, L. Eugene; Abikoff, Howard B.; Conners, C. Keith; Elliott, Glen R.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Hechtman, Lily; Jensen, Peter S.; Kraemer, Helena C.; March, John S.; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Severe, Joanne B.; Swanson, James M.; Vitiello, Benedetto; Wells, Karen C.; Wigal, Timothy – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2005
Peer-assessed outcomes were examined at the end of treatment (14 months after study entry) for 285 children (226 boys, 59 girls) with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who were rated by their classmates (2,232 classmates total) using peer sociometric procedures. All children with ADHD were participants in the Multimodal Treatment…
Descriptors: Therapy, Behavior Modification, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders
Download full textParamore, Nancy W.; Higbee, Thomas S. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2005
Brief multiple-stimulus-without-replacement (MSWO) preference assessments were conducted with 3 adolescent boys with emotional-behavioral disorders in the context of their public school educational program. The reinforcing effects of stimuli identified as high, medium, and low preference were then evaluated using an alternating treatments design…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Behavior Disorders, Adolescents, Emotional Disturbances
Baker, Pamela Hudson – American Secondary Education, 2005
Educators face the dilemma of zero tolerance versus zero rejection. The pressure to maintain safe classrooms while simultaneously educating all students is a challenging proposition. This article is used to share data that were collected as part of a larger study on teachers' beliefs about their own self-efficacy regarding general classroom…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Zero Tolerance Policy, Self Efficacy, Classroom Techniques
Gosschalk, Philip O. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2004
This paper describes the behavioral treatment of acute onset school refusal in a 5-year old girl with Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD). A functional classification was used to select a treatment approach that involved the parent and teacher using shaping, positive reinforcement and extinction. Results showed that by the end of the fifth week of…
Descriptors: Separation Anxiety, Positive Reinforcement, Classification, School Phobia
Conroy, Maureen A.; Dunlap, Glen; Clarke, Shelley; Alter, Peter J. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2005
The purpose of this study was to critically examine the positive approaches to behavioral intervention research and young children demonstrating challenging behavior. The authors conducted a comprehensive review of articles published between 1984 and 2003 across 23 peer-reviewed journals. Each article that met the criteria for inclusion in the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Young Children, Behavior Modification, Behavior Disorders
Scholte, E. M.; van der Ploeg, J. D. – Journal of Adolescence, 2006
The development of adolescents with severe behavioural problems receiving residential treatment in Holland was empirically studied during 1 year. Treatment methods included a standard program comprising behavioural modification and three specific treatment programs: psychodynamic treatment, structured community living and adventurous learning. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Foreign Countries, Behavior Modification
Peer reviewedMasters, Kim J. – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005
During a psychiatric hospitalization of 5 to 10 days, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) strategies can be used for the management of inpatients and to support the transition to outpatient treatment. This format was chosen after several years of frustration dealing with crisis inpatient care. The use of CBT is well known, and it seemed that an…
Descriptors: Patients, Emotional Response, Interpersonal Relationship, Cognitive Restructuring
Empirical Support for a Treatment Program for Families of Young Children With Externalizing Problems
Feinfield, Kristin Abbott; Baker, Bruce L. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2004
We evaluated the efficacy of a manualized multimodal treatment program for young externalizing children. Families were assigned randomly to an immediate 12-week parent and child treatment condition (n = 24) or to a delayed-treatment condition (n = 23). Parents had high attendance, high satisfaction with treatment, and increased knowledge of…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Child Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Styles
Agosta, E.; Graetz, J. E.; Mastropieri, M. A.; Scruggs, T. E. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2004
In this project, a partnership between school and university personnel addressed, in a systematic, research-oriented fashion, a classroom problem. A young child with autism exhibited excessively loud screaming, yelling, humming, and other distracting noises during class activities in a special education setting. These disruptive behaviors were a…
Descriptors: Research Design, Intervention, Class Activities, Autism
