A course of instruction in psychological and psychiatric principles for tutors of pre-clinical students to prepare them to guide students' academic progress and social adjustment. (IR)

The paradigm was utilized to train professionals in the skills of attending behavior, expression of feeling, and reflection of feeling. Results showed that all trainees evidence significant learning of all three behavioral skills in a short period of time. Significant pre to post treatment differences occurred on all criterion measures. (Author)

Results suggest that the experimental treatment can influence changes in the meaning prospective teachers have for the concepts "public school teacher", "parents", and "parent teacher conference". Results might be enhanced if the counselor assumed a more active role as coach or diagnostician. (Author)

Comparison of college students and women with children results in two general patterns: greater use by former of active techniques involving direct manipulation of consequences: and decrease by former in use of love-oriented techniques which were negatively cast. Includes note on replication of previous finding (Marwell and Schmitt, 1967) on use…

Addresses the question of training transfer; i.e., transferring knowledge gained in training courses back into work situations. States that training staff should systematically analyze course content and identify recipients of proposed changes in order to help course members apply new knowledge. Lists four main practical implications to help…

Explores the effectiveness of training in miscue analysis on teachers' perceptions of reading, accuracy in describing reading behavior, and judgments of readers' patterns of strengths. Concludes that the training was valuable. (FL)

Describes the teaching of a preschool and kindergarten nutrition curriculum that used sensory experiences stressing guided discovery with a variety of real foods. (SL)

Compared the separate and combined effects of behavior rehearsal and modeling on grooming skill development of mentally retarded women (N=48). All treatments were superior to the control condition. Modeling and behavior rehearsal were both effective but there was no advantage to combining them. Cost effectiveness favored the other-model procedure.…

Describes and evaluates a five-phase training model which facilitates practitioners' choices in regard to model selection by providing an opportunity to compare their own therapeutic belief and action systems with those of family therapists oriented to one of three historically prominent models of family therapy. (WAS)

Discusses the strengths and limitations of the culture simulator technique and describes its potential use in training child welfare workers for cultural awareness. (MP)

Three training methods differing in degree of abstraction (demonstration, slide-diagram, and diagram) were used to instruct adolescents (26 control and 21 aphasic) in the completion of two tasks. Results indicated that aphasics have a deficit of abstract thinking which can prove a handicap in training situations. Ten sources are cited. (EJS)

Four supervisors working in a sheltered workshop for developmentally disabled adults participated in a behavior management program. Tests of durability of the altered behavior at three months and six months after completion of training showed that three supervisors had maintained low levels of attending to inappropriate trainee behaviors. (Author)