Investigated efficacy of combining rapid smoking aversion and training in self-control skills for maintaining nonsmoking. Results at the 13-week follow-up showed that the performance of the combined rapid smoking plus self-control program was not superior to rapid smoking plus disucssion. (Author)

Undergraduate students, (N=28), participating in a speech anxiety treatment program, served as subjects in a study designed to evaluate procedures for improbing the accuracy of self-recording. Self-monitored speeches were unobtrusively recorded to enable comparisons between the number of disfluencies that were self-recorded and the number actually…

Studied the role of therapist acceptance of patient values, patient acceptance of therapist values, and value persuasion on outcome among 13 psychotherapy dyads. A strong relationship was found between the patients' acquisition of their therapists' values and their ratings of improvement. (Author)

A follow-up of adults who obtained continuing education counseling revealed the majority made personally satisfying attitudinal or behavioral changes such as returning to school, but did not attribute the change made directly to counseling. Changers scored significantly higher on the powerful others subscale than did nonchangers. (Author)

Discusses the use of a dialectical approach to personality assessment and psychotherapy. Focusing on the concept of change, a dialectical approach would emphasize the person as process, would focus on growth, and would emphasize treatment of clients within the context of other human relationships. (BD)

A teacher may be the first person to sense a potentially suicidal student through observing changes in behavior; it is important to realize the seriousness of the situation and to seek help for the disturbed child. (JD)

An interdisciplinary Sexual Health Services unit has been established at the University of Minnesota Medical School that offers counseling and treatment programs for a wide variety of sex-related concerns and problems. One year follow-up results show positive change in a large majority of cases. (Author)

Describes group therapy techniques involving the whole family of a child with a behavior or learning difficulty. A direct question approach is used, with major responsibility for behavior change placed upon the family. The therapist's role is minimized and the influence of parent expectation on child behavior stressed. (BF)

In this article, the three stages of the Values Clarification process (prizing, choosing, and acting) are described and illustrated by strategies which can be used in the counselor's office or the classroom. (JC)

Having the preschool child as a participator, the teacher has a prime opportunity to use the behavior modification techniques of successive approximation, reinforcement, and stimulus novelty. (RC)

This study was designed to identify juvenile delinquent boys who had low social self-concepts as measured by the Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS) and to enhance their self-concepts through a program of photographic feedback of successful social interactions. (Editor)

Providing teachers with training in interactive behavior skills (activities) is not sufficient to change teacher behavior in the classroom unless teacher beliefs about what is important (objectives) in the classroom are also modified. (MB)

Today, the term 'behavior therapy' has no clear denotation. Those who adhere to the more delimited meanings of behavior therapy tend to disregard significant nonbehavioral therapeutic development. They also overlook convincing data demonstrating that in adult humans, conditioning is produced through cognitive mediation. Adoption of a more…

This study examined effects of social praise on attentive behavior of reinforced and nonreinforced children. Two pairs of mentally retarded preschool boys served as subjects. Results revealed that intervention procedure increased the attentive behavior of the target subjects and nonreinforced subjects also increased their attentive behavior during…