A program has been developed which teaches behavior principles to junior high school students enrolled in special classes for the emotionally disturbed. (SB)

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory admission and remission profiles were compared in a group of 34 patients hospitalized for depression. Relatively normal profiles for the bipolar group and abnormal profiles for the unipolar group significantly differentiated the two groups at admission, but, with one exception, the differences dissipated…

The author describes his eclectic approach to counseling using RET, TA, client-centered, gestalt and behavioral tools. He uses a specific case study to clarify his method. (Author)

A comparative evaluation was made between behavioral replication and sensitivity training with regard to treatment efficiency for heterosexual dating anxiety. No significant differences were found between the two programs on measures of social anxiety. The behavioral program demonstrated significant treatment efficiency on more specific measures…

An experimental flight program produced marked changes in the behavior of a group of inner-city junior high school students. A longitudinal study verifies that the changed behavior continued after the students left school. (IRT)

Preschool children interacted with an adult model who was either low or highly rewarding to the child. Later the model displayed either a high or low degree of positive affect as he played with a nonpreferred toy. The model's affect influenced both the children's ratings of and imitative play with the toy. (Author/RD)

The educational changes that seem to offer the greatest long-term benefits are those that focus on modifying the behaviors of teachers, administrators, and students in the interest of good schools. (Author/MLF)

A three-school study suggests that more intensive teacher effort, more attention to contriving successful pupil reading experiences, and freer delivery of "payoffs" to pupils who are reading, offer the possibility of modifying pupil attitudes about reading. (Author/RL)

This case study of a project designed to change a junior high school's approach to discipline focuses on the change facilitators' interventions in implementing the innovation. Data assessing how teachers change are presented and discussed in relation to the intervention data. (JMF)

Examines both the explicit and implicit assumptions behind the Kirkpatrick evaluation model. Attempts to demonstrate conceptually the danger of simplistic evaluation approaches and argues for rigorous evaluation designs. (CSS)

Experimental procedures for modification of cognitive impulsivity in handicapped children (including required delay, direct instruction, self-verbalization, differentiation training, modeling, and reinforcement) are reviewed and their respective teaching implications identified. (BD)

Four normal preschool children and four with comprehensive academic and behavior problems were taught to judge the quality of their academic work in a classroom, and to prompt or cue their teachers to comment about the quality of that work. (Author)

Deviations in physical appearance, often a concomitant of exceptionality, can result in serious developmental consequences. (Author/PHR)