Discusses social issues outside science education that directly affect policies, curricula and instruction in science. The role of personal values and cultural paradigms in social change, limits to growth and the role of science education in the emerging ecological society are among the ideas discussed. (HM)

This study evaluates the impact of personal-social counseling upon student behavior change. The primary concern was a measure of the effect of a counselor-initiated humanistic-intervention paradigm upon identified personal-social problem areas of nonreferred Black junior high school students. (Author)

Two new variations of overcorrection (a behavior modification technique) in the treatment of the self-injurious behaviors (cigarette-butt-eating and hair pulling) of a 57-year-old profoundly mentally handicapped woman are discussed. (BD)

The author examines trends in special education of the past five years, including court cases, emphasis on mainstreaming, categorization schemes, and behavior modification schemes, and makes projections for the next five years. (MJB)

Examines effect of contract-based behavioral intervention on decision-making patterns of delinquent adolescents and their parents. Concludes that use of contracts and other behavioral strategies encouraged family members to use more effective means of communication. (Author)

Focuses on key issues in this critique of humanistic psychology and examines eight areas of investigation in an attempt to develop humanistic psychology as a serious alternative to the empty scientism it was founded to counteract. (Author/RK)

This article presents a method for family crisis intervention. The goal is extended from restoring the crisis bearing unit to its pre-crisis level of coping to a basic restructuring of maladaptive pre-crisis behaviors. It is aimed at general behavior change as well as resolution of the immediate situation. (Author)

Experimenter modeled affectionate physical contact in group of preschool children who imitated the behavior. This induced significant increase of affectionate behavior during free-play period. A group which imitated "neutral" physical contact and another that had imitated "warm" verbal contact did not show significant increase in affectionate…

Mothers of four 6- and 7-year-old autistic classmates were taught to use manual signs with verbalizations to aid development of appropriate communicative behavior and to deter undesirable behavior in their children. (Author)

A combination of reinforcement for correct imitations and timeout for failure was more effective in establishing imitation in a 4-year-old institutionalized retarded child than reinforcement used alone. (CL)

This study suggest that feedback, goal setting, and goal setting combined with feedback, when coupled with systematic observation and inservice training of teachers in instructional behaviors being observed, promotes instructional behavior change of those teachers who choose for themselves the nature and direction of the changes. (JD)

A model for the evaluation of patient education programs is proposed. (MM)

This paper encourages the combination of behavioral and family therapeutic techniques within the family context. This approach is most helpful during the beginning to intermediate stages of family therapy and provides the therapist with the necessary leverage to allow for effective intervention and change. Three case histories are presented.…

Evaluation data frequently do not confirm program administrators' and recipients' perceptions of benefits; positive perceptions will occur without regard to actual behavioral and cognitive social psychological theory. Implications are drawn for program planning and for evaluation methodology. (Author/CTM)

The research reported here investigated the response of white suburban home owners to the initial integration of their previously all white neighborhood. The study was designed to examine the extent to which interracial contact occurs, the behavioral reactions of the residents to the integration of their area, and corresponding changes in their…