The role of the therapist was varied in a weight reduction program. When meetings with the therapist were "faded out" over the duration of the 10-week treatment period subjects lost significantly more weight compared to subjects who met with the therapist on a regular basis; both groups differed significantly from controls. Six months after…

The research findings of most studies on student behavior problems have shown that these behaviors can be reduced to four major clusters of interrelated characteristics--conduct disorder, personality disorder, inadequacy-immaturity and socialized delinquency. Discusses these behaviors and some research on behavior change. (Author/RK)

Analyzes the use of behavioral self-modification projects in college classes. Such projects are attempts by students to apply the principles of behavioral psychology to their own behavior. Discussed are impact of projects on student learning, extent of student behavior change, and adequacy of research design. (Author/AV)

Single-subject experimental methodology was used to evaluate the relationship between distinct patterns of deviant sexual arousal and heterosexual arousal. The theoretical and clinical implications of a functional independence among various patterns of sexual arousal are discussed. (Author)

Studies reviewed in this report suggest that an instructional approach -- namely, direct reinforcement, contingency contracting, and social modeling -- has great promise for rehabilitating juvenile delinquents. (Author/SM)

This article describes some of the progress of a research program stressing the need for the development of reinforcement principles in education, the need for behavior analysis, and the need for wider utilization of learning principles. (Author/RK)

Article provides a definition for diagnosing children as autistic and describes the positive effect behavior modification has had on the education of the autistic child. (Author/RK)

Paper read at Conference on New Approaches to Behavioral Research on Smoking sponsored by the American Cancer Society in Tucson, Arizona, on March 30 and 31, 1972. (DS)

Modeling was shown to be a more rapid modification procedure than was shaping, and the interaction levels produced through modeling, with or without the addition of shaping, were more stable over time. (Authors)

This article presents the theoretical rationale for behavior modification, principally through its comparison with traditional psychotherapies, and suggests some behavior modification techniques for the classroom management of maladaptive behavior. (Author)

Hypothesizes that beliefs to learning will be considered by the subject to be more easily influenced than those which are intrinsic. Table and bibliography. (RW)