Disadvantaged job-ready clients who were trained for effective job interviews showed significant improvement over control subjects in areas of responsiveness, honesty, and self-confidence. (Author)

The effectiveness of using a parent volunteer as a mediator in a behavorial modification technique with 4 disruptive pupils was investigated. (NQ)

Encouragement in all facets of the counseling interview is a critical ingredient in the counseling process. This article sets forth the theory and specific applications of the encouragement process in counseling, as viewed in the socio-teleological model. (Author)

This study examined the relationship between incoming information and a person's attitude. The conclusions imply the existance of a cognition, affect, behavior conceptualization of attitude dynamics. (Author/JB)

Defends educational accountability against the charges of Robert Samples ( Media & Methods,'' Sep 1972). (RB)

Problems encountered by behavior modification consultants working in public schools are described in the form of a parable. (Author)

The data in this study reveals that persons are the means by which students feel their lives are touched. The person versus things distinction was evident throughout the data examined. (Author)

Purpose of this article is to offer an approach that can be understood and used by professionals and laymen in assisting children in their development. (Authors)

This study was designed to compare experimentally the therapeutic efficacy of group therapy stressing interpretive procedures intended to bring about client insight, with a form of group therapy experience encouraging client-to-client interaction without the intentional development of insight. (Author)

An attempt to determine which subgroups of schizophrenics tend to engage in manipulatory behavior proved unproductive. (Author)

Message sidedness had no significant effect on perceived source credibility; inclusion of evidence significantly increased perceived source credibility'' in the study described. (Author)

The author considers T-groups akin to thought reform or brainwashing and describes them as dealing with an assault upon the individual's self-concept, isolation of individuals, and compulsory confessional behavior. (Author/JB)