Rational-emotive counseling (REC) aims at changing beliefs or philosophies that lead to negative emotions and inappropriate behavior. It gives people responsibility for creating their existence. REC maintains it is not the "facts" that influence our behaviors and feelings but our interpretation of these "facts". Use of this approach with…

Effects of a packaged teacher-consultant-mediated intervention program (CLASS) for modifying acting-out behavior in the regular classroom were evaluated. The experimental groups significantly increased their proportion of appropriate behavior postintervention and required fewer remedial services and special class placement years later. Training…

An epidemiological study of 205 children (3-4 years old) showed there to be a marked association between behavior problems and language delay. (Author)

Presents electrophysiological and behavioral evidence for a neural process related to storage in short-term memory. Predicting recall performance on the basis of the storage component of brain responses is presented. A list of references is also included. (HM)

The experiment was designed to determine the relative effectiveness of teacher and counseling approaches in the reduction of disruptive or inappropriate classroom behavior of 12 academically low achieving, seventh-grade, Black male students. (Author/SBH)

The generalization of cooperative behavior and proximity across classroom situations was tested with three behavior disordered children between the ages of 3.5 and 4.5 years who had low rates of cooperative behavior. (Author/DLS)

The school-related problems discussed in this article cover three major areas: disruptive behaviors in the classroom; academic behaviors in the classroom and at home; and school attendance as related to both truancy and school phobias. (Author/AM)

Peer reinforcement, modeling, and cooperative programing arrangements are among the strategies described which involve peers in modifying the behavior problems of classmates. (CL)

Outlined are biological, sociological, and conscious and unconscious psychological factors involved in stealing, and discussed are appropriate teacher responses to stealing by students. (CL)

This article describes two methods for breaking out of therapeutic impasses. One way is to be absurd, to push the situation to its ridiculous limit. The second is acting-in. Acting-in is the effort of the psychotherapist to intensify the anxiety to bring about an experiential breakthrough. (Author/JEL)

Compared black (N=614) and white (N=1,162) children on the Behavior Problem Checklist. Blacks were judged to have a greater frequency of behavior disorders than whites. A number of interactions of race with other variables were found, and their meanings are discussed. (Author)

It is concluded that the systematic desensitization studies, the masturbatory training approaches, and the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation series are all effective treatment procedures, employing graduated exposure to sexual stimuli plus some form of directive psychotherapy emphasizing interpersonal skills acquisition. These may be the…

As part of a continuing study of the differences between couples seeking marital therapy and those seeking sexual dysfunction therapy, this report examines these two clinical populations on the dimension of discrepant views of the marriage. Results suggest overall discrepancy scores may be an important indicator of stress between partners. (Author)