Designed to study implosive therapy with groups, this use of a behavioristic technique, which reduces unadaptive anxiety by emphasizing the presentation of the highly anxiety-evoking stimulus until the stimulus is no longer able to evoke anxiety, failed to produce a significant difference between control and therapy groups. (Author/KM)

When articles on social work with client groups were analyzed a number of shortcomings in the way workers used groups appeared consistently. Although collective effort for changing the clients' environment was clearly needed in many instances, the predominant focus was on changing individual behavior. (Author)

The relative efficiency of behavioral contracts and behavioral proclamations was empirically appraised in a parochial high school setting. Subjects were a select group of academically oriented seniors studying Problems of Democracy. Results supported the position that students attain higher rates of appropriate behavior when given the opportunity…

A self-help project called Concept Associates, Inc., was started at Parish Prison in New Orleans. While most penal rehabilitation programs educate inmates and teach them a trade, the work of Concept is more thorough. The inmates aid each other with their problems by concentrating on inner changes and the power of positive thinking through four…

This study reports a successful behavior change program in a 6-year-old girl who became physically ill and continually cried at school. Behavior shaping procedures were used that differentially reinforced successive approximations to the final desired behavior. A unique aspect of this program was its utilization of the girl's mother as the primary…

This article presents a brief description of an experience in which deliberate uses of nonattending behavior achieved a relationship heretofore lacking the desired therapeutic conditions. (Author)

Combining education theory with technique of behavioral science produces a successful means of effecting change in the classroom, says the author, an advocate of contingency management. He discusses the tools, the strategy, and the rules of the game. (Editor/CB)

This article suggests a structure for determining some specific goals of adjustment services and discusses the definition, objectives, merits, and problems pertaining to six general adjustment techniques that are felt to be appropriate for use in rehabilitation facilities. (Author)

The development of favorable attitudes toward the police is an essential element of law-focused education, such development takes place during school age. A model illustrating the need for balance between the cognitive, affective, and values domains is presented. (JB)

The school, like any other sustained and complicated social organization, contains behavioral regularities. Introducing and sustaining a change in a school or classroom means changing an existing regularity. Three illustrations are given to show that special diagnosis of these underlying behavioral conditions is needed (Author/RF)

It is hypothesized that the absence of a critic to provide effective feedback concerning model behavior will be associated with significant undervaluing by the subject of his performance. (Author)

A major purpose of this experiment was to assess the impact on children's imitative altruism of a model's affect expressions which were both contiguous to the critical act, and which explicated the relationship between the model's affect and his behavior. (Authors)