Of 219 people interviewed within a week of the broadcast of the miniseries "Roots," 104 people were reinterviewed one year later to determine the program's long-term effects, including its perceived and experienced impact on race relations in the United States and its stimulation of viewers to search for their own roots/heritage and to…

The effectiveness of four operant procedures (differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior, omission training, overcorrection, and reinforcement withdrawal) in changing self injurious behavior (SIB) of 16 severely handicapped students was examined. Analysis of correlations between reduction in SIB and subject characteristics, adaptive…

Six children (mean age 10 years) with minimal brain dysfunction learned to regulate their behavior for themselves and showed less disturbed behavior, increased on-task behavior and better mathematics performance under conditions of self control. (CL)

Intervention studies in which peer social initiations were used to increase the social and play skills of withdrawn preschool and school aged children are reviewed. A discussion follows of such practical application issues as selection of peer trainers, training of peer trainers, arrangement of the setting for peer intervention, and teacher…

This book on writing behavioral contracts is structured to give the reader an opportunity to use contingency contracting in a situation that resembles the real world. Contracting is a technique used to structure behavior counseling by making each of the necessary elements of the process so clear and explicit that they may be written into an…

This book is divided into 10 chapters. The first deals with the historical development of clinical experiences in teacher education. Chapter 2 explains how it was realized in the late 1960's that a true partnership between colleges and public schools was needed if quality laboratory experiences were to exist. Many such partnerships have been…

The results of a course-instructor survey (CIS) to assess student perceptions of instructional effectiveness are made available to instructors on the assumption that feedback results in appropriate changes in instructional behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of feedback of CIS results to instructors. Two specific…

This report reviews some of the most relevant findings from the extensive research which has been done on behavior modification. It summarizes the more important, practical, concrete, and classroom-tested procedures which research shows to be effective im improving students' academic and social behaviors. The first section of the report begins by…

Summarized is a therapy approach utilizing characterizations designed to help the client reduce his neurotic behaviors and develop his true potentials. Growing up, he may have been forced to reject aspects of his personality to meet others' expectations. Thus, he is not integrated or whole. To reduce the control used to hide his rejected parts of…

The Service Outcome Measurement Form (SOM) was the result of Service Outcome Measurement Project, and was developed and tested with the cooperation of Rehabilitation Administrators and Counselors in the state agencies of 11 states. The Project was designed to develop a method of measuring the relative difficulty of cases and to measure client…

This paper offers the classroom teacher a positive answer for the test anxious student. The writer developed a group testing strategy which is concerned with ways students learn as well as subject matter testing. This evaluation strategy used successfully in high school and college classes is based on group work principles as applied in the…

This paper reviews recent evidence on a new treatment procedure for dating anxieties and inhibitions based on real-life practice dating interactions. The procedure involves randomly pairing opposite-sexed partners (both of whom are volunteers for the treatment program) for a series of practice dates, each with a different partner. Data from five…

Psychological testing as an area has perhaps evoked more controversy and heated emotion than has any other area within the fields of psychology and counseling. Part of the reason for this has to do with the inherent complexity and difficulty of the task of assessing human abilities, emotions and achievements. But beyond this basic issue, an…

The evaluation of the traffic safety curriculum as presented to K-9 students in North Carolina focused on three areas: (1) the extent to which students acquired the information included in the curriculum, (2) the extent to which students showed a change in their actual pedestrian and bicyclist behavior, and (3) the extent to which teachers made…

Studied was the effectiveness of biofeedback techniques in reducing the hyperactive behavior of five hyperactive and four nonhyperactive children (all in elementary level learning disability classes). After 10 15-minute biofeedback training sessions over an 8-week period, Ss learned to raise their finger temperatures an average of 12.92 degrees…