Describes a weight-loss program for 40 obese junior high school students who were divided into five groups, two using reality therapy, two using conventional counseling, and one control group. Reality therapy was shown to be the more effective method of treatment. (Author)

Examines impact on 30 high school students of 12 hours of exposure to Rational Behavior Training (RBT) and 10 days of exposure to a controlled conflict situation in a wilderness environment. The treatment group showed marked reduction in irrational personality traits and intra-interpersonal needs. (Author)

Discusses the role of anger in young children and its relationship to learning and suggests specific approaches and techniques for managing aggression in young children. Cites over a dozen strategies for teaching children more effective mastery of their angry feelings. (BR)

This study investigated the effectiveness of teachers trained in basic interpersonal skills to change the misdirected behavior of students. It was hypothesized that the unsolicited interaction between teacher and student would so fulfill the students' need for attention that classroom misbehaviors would decrease. (Author)

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that structural and behavioral changes are not mutually exclusive, but rather complementary. It discusses origins of the behavioral-structural controversy, major behavioral symptoms of structural problems, advantages of structural interventions, reluctance to utilize structural interventions, and…

Effects on the academic and disruptive behavior of special education pupils after adding a cost contingency to a token reinforcement procedure were examined. Response rates were higher when response cost was added than during either the baseline or token reinforcement contingency. (Author/MV)

Shows that shifts in children's organizing behaviors occur relatively independently of changes in ability. (RL)

This survey of juvenile courts across the country indicates that only one of five courts have a parent group program and few use procedures reported in the growing literature relating to changing the behavior of agressive children. (Author)

Study skills deficits were reconceptualized on a knowledge and use dimension of either a general or specific nature. Each student in the program would be located on this continuum and a package developed which consisted of the appropriate mixture of techniques to increase study skills knowledge and usage. (Author)

Available from: Sage Publications, Inc., 275 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90212. Presented are guidelines for the identification of target behaviors and suitable intervention techniques by therapists using behavior modification techniques. (IM)

Presenting a five-step positive reinforcement model for teachers and prospective teachers wishing to achieve a greater degree of self-management, this article includes discussions: selecting a goal; recording the quantity and circumstances of behavior; changing setting events; establishing effective consequences; and focusing on environmental…

The author contends that the application of structure and reinforcement will effectively eliminate hyperactivity in most classrooms. If these procedures do not work it is very likely that the child does not have the component skills necessary for completing the academic materials. In this case, it is probably best to keep the hyperactive child on…

This study reports a successful classroom intervention program which was designed to curb encopresis. It used positive consequences in combination with negative consequences, rather than negative consequences alone. Also it utilized a reversal strategy to evalulate the efficacy of the treatment variables. (Author)

Boys (N=55) aged 8-11, categorized as impulsives by the Matching Familiar Figures test, participated in a study comparing the effects of three different techniques, designed to change an impulsive cognitive style on response accuracy and response latency. Subjects trained to increase response latency did show a significant increase in latency.…