This monograph is intended not only to enhance the psychological freedom of children and youth, but to free the counselor to be more versatile in his counseling techniques. In Chapter One, the author deals with some of the philosophical controversy which underlies the contrasting approaches of Rogers and Skinner. In Chapter Two, Haigh portrays the…

This manual is one of four designed to help supervisors in training hard-core disadvantaged employees. It provides guidelines for preliminary procedures before implementation of a supervisor training program and is intended for the use of those charged with training supervisors. Related documents are available as VT 018 032-018 035 in this issue.…

The author examines those potential negative effects that appear to be intrinsically associated with behavior therapy. The behavior therapist faces the potential danger of encouraging what is likely to be reinforced by the client's environment, thereby maintaining a societal status quo which, in itself, may be harmful. The author mentions the use…

Three studies of behavior therapy by a therapist who was also the clients' instructor are reported. All of the clients defined target behaviors, collected data, and implemented procedures to modify the behaviors. The data were brought to each session for analysis and revision each week. Case 1 reported modification of stealing behavior, where both…

Are the behaviors that constitute the essential features of behavior counseling consistent with the principles of behaviorism that form the substratum for a behavioral counseling approach? The author maintains they are not and presents his arguments in this article. (Author)

The purpose of this article is to postulate a psychological mechanism to account for self-defeating behavior, which is also the central mechanism in a new definition of mental health. (Author)

If the term "behavioral" is applied to all theorists who adhere to the canons of science, people like Carl Rogers and Hans Strupp will have to be dubbed "behavior therapists." Important findings, significant differences, and crucial hypotheses are entirely overlooked if scientific data provided by "nonbehavioral" researchers are ignored. (Author)

Flooding and systematic desensitization procedures were investigated for possible interactions with subject arousal level on reduction in phobic reactions. No such interaction was found. Behaviorally and on GSR response, both flooding and systematic desensitization were effective, but only the latter was effective on subjective reports. (NG)

Depression is an emotional dysfunction encountered daily by counselors. This author discusses a step by step behavioral paradigm developed specifically to be employed with moderately depressed persons not receiving sufficient positive reinforcement from their environment. (Author/MPJ)

There has been little research on the effectiveness of behavior modification with groups. This controlled study done in an agency setting found the behavioral model to be an effective method of treating groups of clients with a wide variety of problems. (Author)

Self-referred and court-referred clients were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups, aversive counterconditioning, behavioral self-control training or a controlled drinking composite. All therapies were conducted by trained paraprofessionals and consisted of 10 weekly sessions. No significant differences among treatments were found.…

In a response to Albert Ellis' feature article, the author calls the article "disappointing" and points out several inconsistancies. (HMV)

In a response to Albert Ellis' feature article, the author agrees with Ellis but feels that less time should be spent proving which counseling method is better than the next, and more time spent in comparative research as per clients' gains. (HMV)

The college health professional has a significant role to play with regard to alcohol use and the college student, including an understanding of biomedical, psychological, and social factors, and should provide health education, individual counseling, and treatment for those students who risk becoming alcoholics. (JD)

Describes the involvement of behavioral scientists in agricultural development programs and sketches the contributions behavioral scientists are expected to make to agricultural development in the future. (SL)