The application of the triadic model of therapeutic intervention was tested within a community-based program that trained indigenous nonprofessionals as behavior change agents to 42 youngsters, aged 11-17. These adult buddies attempted to influence their youngsters through their relationship and through the contingent use of social and material…

Discussed are procedures for the charting of behavior changes to provide feedback for child and teacher which are reported to have been used at one school for autistic and neurologically impaired children. (DB)

Counseling is discussed as a model for future problem solving if the client is fully aware of what the process is and if he is given opportunities to participate by making suggestions and decisions along the way. The ultimate goal is for the client to become his own systems analyst and be fully in charge of his own destiny. (Author)

Describes new incentive program which has eased adult-child tension in a home for disturbed adolescents. (ST)

Discusses the question of whether overactive youngsters should receive medication for their condition. (GB)

The results of this study of two groups of nursing students, one administered desensitization sessions, the other not, agree with earlier studies which indicate that massed group desensitization is an efficient and efficacious procedure for the reduction of anxiety-based disorders. (Author/KM)

The curriculum to be covered was defined by cooperating teachers and divided into hierarchies of finely differentiated skills. The next step required the development of five lessons in worksheet form for each of the skills. The following step involved the development of answer booklets and quizzes. Diagnostic tools were developed and administered.…

Major findings were that: contingent reinforcement was effective in altering behavior; instructions did not augment the efficacy of contingent reinforcement; noncontingent reinforcement was effective for nondeviant students who were told that the reinforcement was actually contingent; and contingent reinforcement led to greater generalization than…

The study was designed to assess the impact of a structured communications skills workshop of self-referred clients who expressed problems in feeling uncomfortable, awkward, or isolated in their relationships with others. (Author)

The present study involved four classrooms that were experimenting with the open-classroom system. Although most children were making adequate progress there were some children who consistently failed to engage in academic activities. For these youngsters, a behavior modification procedure that motivated them to partake in academic tasks was…

The plan of this paper is to demonstrate that human language is a complex phenomena which is unique to man and that the properties of human language represent a new level of cognitive organization vis-a-vis evolutionary theory. (Editor)