An experimental group of 11 mentally retarded Arab children (mean age 8.8 years) were involved in a contingency-management program based on successful completion of academic work. (Author)

Five foster grandparents were taught training skills for use in their daily interactions with severely handicapped adolescents in an institution. (Author)

Discusses barriers to effective contraception, such as informational, emotional, and imaginative factors, and what might be done to avoid unwanted pregnancies by using these factors in positive programs and behaviors. (Author/RK)

An interview method is recommended for finding student or staff behaviors responsible for successful outcomes in potentially undersirable situations.

Third grade children were taught to share by viewing videotapes of themselves and models in a situation involving sharing. (BD)

Outdoor adventure training resulted in increased sensitivity, self-confidence, carry-over into intellectual activities, and pro-social change in a variety of university, juvenile, and penal institutional settings. Modifications for urban adventure training opportunities have also been developed but not yet evaluated. (MJB)

Results of this study demonstrate that a multiple-problem-focused workshop can be successful in dealing with a wide range of social assertion problems. (MM)

Measures the relative effectiveness of a short-term punishment versus a snort-term positive reinforcement contingency system for reducing the frequency of specific inappropriate behaviors of a group of senior elementary students. Students were directly involved in identifying the different types of discipline so that they might help determine the…

Outlines an alternative procedure for counselors in junior high and secondary schools who find that a nondirective stance leads to confusion and frustration in adolescent clients. (EV)

Two autistic boys, ages 6 and 10 years, whose imitative responding was functionally inaccurate and whose performance generalized poorly, were trained to imitate accurately using a reinforcement-extinction strategy. (DLS)

This paper reports the results of several independent investigations of the reliability and validity of the Environmental Concern Scale, a 16 item Likert scale assessing respondents' concerns about conservation and pollution issues. The potential utility of this scale for future research is discussed. (Author/MA)

Thirty-three impulsive learning-disabled males, aged 9-12 years were involved in the study to investigate techniques for reducing impulsive cognitive tempo. (Author)

Positive social initiations by an age-peer were evaluated as an intervention for three isolate preschool children in training and generalization sessions. (Author)

Contingent "preferred" music was used as a reinforcer with a mentally retarded and autistic-like boy (14-years-old) to increase appropriate conversational speech. (IM)

Fourteen mentally retarded boys (9-13 years old) were given opportunities to monitor and record their own behavior as on-task or off-task, and then to receive consumption and access to consequence reinforcers. (Author/CL)